A piece of Chicago that served the country in wartime and got reinvented for postwar consumerism only to struggle in recent years could be reinvented again. It’s a “back to the future” strategy ...
Pete Kastanes is reminiscing about the golden days of the Ford City Mall. The rambling Southwest Side indoor shopping center opened 60 years ago this summer, as Chicago’s enthusiastic answer to the ...
A decades-old Chicago mall once home to anchors like Montgomery Ward, Sears and Carson's could soon be demolished as part of a $150 million plan to revamp the site into a massive warehouse complex.
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As Ford City Mall Faces End, Nostalgia Grows For Former Shopping Mecca Of Southwest Side
CHICAGO — By the time Ford City Shopping Center opened at 76th Street and Cicero Avenue sixty years ago this month, over 4,500 enclosed shopping centers that were small cities unto themselves dotted ...
The engines are revving up in the Bluegrass State! Ford's Garage, the popular burger-and-craft-beer restaurant known for its vintage automotive charm and comfort food classics, is now open in ...
Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A Chicago industrial developer is poised to buy Ford City ...
The loved ones of a man who was fatally shot in the parking lot of Ford City Mall are still searching for his killer two years later. When Fabiola Martinez met Rick Perez, she thought her family had ...
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