Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Englewood)

CTL-E-0960 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Seven-story, 290,000-sq-ft department store opened 1934; the Englewood Mall's major draw. Closed January 1976 (Tribune report 1/4/1976), along with its 19-stall auto center. Merchants' reactions in the same report split between fear of the mall's collapse and caution against declaring immediate demise.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-046; source research type(s): commercial anchor. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://cdn.cocodoc.com/cocodoc-form-pdf/pdf/15422576--Sears-roebuck-amp-company-department-store-NYC-gov-nyc-.pdf; http://chicagostudies.uchicago.edu/centuries/63rd; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2rNQvqPA4
http://chicagology.com/skyscrapers/skyscrapers077/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieboldt%27s

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