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 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 ...
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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 ...
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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