The last Sears store in Chicago is set to close in July, marking the end of an era for the retailer that has called Chicago home for more than a century.
The store at Six Corners at the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue, Cicero Avenue and Irving Park Road, will begin liquidating on April 27, with closing to come in mid-July, the Chicago Tribune reported. The auto center will close next month.
Sears' mark on Chicago has been strong since it moved its headquarters there from Minnesota in 1887 and made its corporate home at Sears Tower — then the tallest building in the world — in 1973, USA Today reported.
Employees at the Six Corners store, which opened in 1938, were notified of the plans to close Thursday. Sears stores remain in Chicago suburbs North Riverside, Niles, Chicago Ridge, Vernon Hills, Schaumburg and Bloomingdale, and the Sears Holdings Corp. still has about 150 employees based in Hoffman Estates, the Tribune said.
"I’m sad," customer Audra Nelson said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "There are stores I like better, but Sears has been an institution."
The store, located in a three-story building at the edge of the Portage Park neighborhood, was among 265 sold to Seritage Growth Properties in 2015 in a sale-leaseback deal, and Seritage is exercising its right to reclaim the space, the newspaper said.
"We have proudly served our members and customers on Chicago’s Northwest Side for the last eight decades," Sears said in a statement. "Although we are disappointed by this last store closure in Chicago, by no means does this change our commitment to our customers and presence to Chicago’s residents."
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