“We felt like we were going to the ritziest store in the world, and it was right here in Chicago,” Leslie Goddard said, recalling visits to Marshall Field’s.
“My grandfather worked at Marshall Field’s. My aunt and uncle met working at Marshall Field’s. I worked at Marshall Field’s,” she said.“I was interested in the memories, but also in what led to their rise, and what has led to their fall,” she said.“Chicagoans loved it, loved it,” Goddard said. “Known for an incredible variety of merchandise, a place where they would treat you like royalty.
“There are very, very few institutions in the U.S. where tourists will come and take photographs of themselves in front of a corporate logo,” Goddard said.Macy’s recently closed its Water Tower store, the faded lettering on the sign outside a sad reminder of better days for the department store chain.Sears began as a catalog, and opened its first downtown department store on State Street in 1932. Its last department store in Illinois – at Woodfield Mall – closed last year.
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