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Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., was an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. [2][3] After multiple purchases and a successful run on ...
Gurnee Mills is a shopping mall and outlet mall in Gurnee, Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. Like the nearby Six Flags Great America and Great Wolf Lodge, the mall's placement in Gurnee is intended to bring customers from both Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With 1,936,699 square feet (179,925 m 2) of gross leasable area and ten ...
In 2005, Value City Furniture opened, replacing some inline stores and an entrance. In 2010, Kerasotes ShowPlace 12 was acquired by AMC. Circuit City which opened in 1990 and located outside the mall closed in the mid-2000s. It was later replaced with a Lucky McGee's sports bar. It closed in January 2016.
Chicago is exploring the idea of creating a city-owned grocery store to address food inequity after several grocery giants, including Walmart and Whole Foods, have shuttered stores in the city.
In July of 2007, Target opened with a 126,000-square-foot (11,700 m 2) store built on an outparcel, and JCPenney returned in October of 2007 with a 104,000-square-foot (9,700 m 2) store, also built on an outparcel. Sears began a store-closing sale on May 11, 2012. [3] On June 1, 2012, Lincoln Mall was scheduled for a court ordered sale by auction.
Montgomery Ward. Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the ...
The closing locations were chosen based upon their overall performance, profitability, and proximity to competitors such as Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, and Circuit City. This first round of closings reduced the number of stores to less than half of its previous number.