This week, Saks Fifth Avenue announced it was closing its Michigan Avenue store. The department store has been on the Mag Mile since 1929! State of play: In honor of the news, let's do a quiz on the ...

The first object you see in “The History of Department Stores” at the City of Architecture and Heritage museum is a ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017.Herman Wilhelm Bloch left Budapest, Hungary, at the age of 17 and headed to the United States with $1 in his pocket. Bloch sold lace and linens ...

Before online shopping and big-box domination, department stores were the heart of the American retail experience. In the 1970s, these stores offered everything from fashion and furniture to lunch ...

The Elmhurst History Museum’s newest exhibit, “Lost Chicagoland Department Stores,” opening Oct. 6, will honor the heyday of such Chicago area department stores as Marshall Field & Co., Carson Pirie ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — There’s been a lot of talk in Ann Arbor lately about the Kline Lot, or Kline’s lot as some call it. Named after the former Kline’s Department Store on Main Street, the nearly ...

DALLAS — The Neiman Marcus Company has been a staple in Dallas for over a century. Today, with rival department store Saks Fifth Avenue buying the company for $2.65 billion, the future of the store's ...

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The exhibit is the brainchild of Flagler Museum CEO and Director Amanda Skier and Chief Curator Campbell Mobley, with help from Simon Doonan, former creative director of the old Barney's New York.