Englewood Business Men's Association

CTL-E-1007 · Organization · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Commercial association documented by a 1944 photograph; director Richard Drew cautioned in the 1976 Tribune report against declaring immediate demise after Sears closed.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-099; source research type(s): business organization. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://cegu.uchicago.edu/2024/12/06/whole-foods-experiment-63rd/; http://chicagology.com/skyscrapers/skyscrapers077/

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