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The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex is a building complex in the community area of North Lawndale in Chicago, Illinois. The complex hosted most of department-store chain Sears ' mail order operations between 1906 and 1993, and it also served as Sears' corporate headquarters until 1973, when the Sears Tower was completed.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. [7]
Hoffman Estates is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.It is a suburb of Chicago.Per the 2020 census, the population was 52,530. [3]The village previously served as the headquarters for Sears and is one of the American headquarters for Mori Seiki.
In 1915, the building was constructed by Sears, Roebuck and Co. to fulfill the Sears Catalog in the Western United States. It was added on the north side of an original 1912 building. [4] [5] Sears opened their retail store at this location in 1925. According to the owner, this was the world's oldest continuously operated Sears store (though ...
Sears Building is the name of a number of buildings across North America, most of which have been converted to other uses since being Sears regional headquarters, warehouses, and/or retail stores: Canada
In December 2021, Transformco announced its plans to sell the Sears headquarters in Hoffman Estates. [32] The property was eventually sold to data center developer in the Summer of 2023 with plans to have the existing buildings demolished by Fall 2023. [33] The fate of the Sears headquarters staff was not published.
The Allstate Corporation is an American insurance company, headquartered in Glenview, Illinois (with a Northbrook, Illinois address) since 2022. [4] Founded in 1931 as part of Sears, Roebuck and Co., it was spun off in 1993, but was still partially owned by Sears until it became an independent company completely in June 1995. [3]