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Sears Holdings Corp., parent of the Sears and Kmart retail chains, filed for bankruptcy protection early Monday — a last-ditch effort to save an American icon that shaped shopping habits...
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Sears, reportedly preparing bankruptcy filing, inks deal to keep its name on Sears Centre through 2022
Sears Holdings Corp. signed a $1.8 million deal last week that could keep its name on its hometown arena through 2022. The question is whether Sears will be around to...
Sears reportedly eyeing bankruptcy just after reopening scaled-down Oak Brook store
A week ago, Sears celebrated the grand reopening of its Oakbrook Center store after a remodeling that cut the store’s size in half, part of a plan to make the...
Mattress Firm closing more than 10 percent of Illinois stores
Even Mattress Firm now acknowledges that a particular street on Chicago’s North Side has more than enough spots to buy a mattress. The Houston-based retailer, which filed for bankruptcy protection...
Amazon Go is opening two more cashierless stores in Chicago. 3,000 nationwide by 2021? We’ll see.
Amazon is opening two more of its cashierless convenience stores in Chicago — including one that opened Monday. Amazon Go, which sells grab-and-go food items in a store designed to...
Cubs’ early playoff exit will test the new Wrigleyville’s offseason appeal
If things had gone differently for the Cubs in Tuesday night’s National League wild-card game, Wrigleyville sports bar Sluggers would have spent Wednesday gearing up to do what owner Steven...
Sears to close Niles store, lay off 75
Sears will close its store in north suburban Niles in mid-December and lay off 75 workers there, according to a report from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity....
Walgreens adding shops from online cosmetics service Birchbox inside 11 drugstores
The beauty departments at two Chicago-area Walgreens stores will be getting a makeover by early next year, courtesy of online beauty retailer Birchbox. Walgreens stores in the Wrigley Building on...
To avoid bankruptcy, Sears CEO proposes selling off real estate. The retailer has tried that move before.
To stave off bankruptcy, Sears CEO Edward Lampert has put forward a plan that would significantly shrink the struggling retailer’s looming debts by selling off nearly all of its remaining...
Online retailers will soon have to collect sales tax from Illinois shoppers. Here’s what you need to know.
Illinois shoppers will start to see more online retailers collecting sales tax beginning Monday. The Supreme Court ruled in June that states can require online retailers to charge sales tax,...