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The Des Plaines Mall was a 185,000 square foot (17,200 m 2) [1] [a] shopping mall in downtown Des Plaines, Illinois. It was designed by J.R. Gottlieb & Co.
Mill Run was originally a venue for off-Broadway shows. It closed sometime in the late 1960s. In 1969, a group headed by Gerald Kaufman, Sammy Davis Jr., and Donjo Medlevine (a former owner of the Chez Paris), leased the theater from Golf Mill Shopping Center. The plan of the new operators was to bring to the theater Las Vegas entertainers ...
Des Plaines (/ d ɪ s ˈ p l eɪ n z /) is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.Per the 2020 census, the population was 60,675. [4] The city is a suburb of Chicago and is located just north of O'Hare International Airport.
The price board inside the McDonald's USA First Store Museum in Des Plaines, Illinois, in 2005. Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis/Getty Images The original menu was long and included items like barbecue.
McDonald's realized that the Des Plaines restaurant had historical significance, so it built a replica. With gold arches placed over a glass and metal, red-and-white tiled exterior, the building largely followed the McDonald brothers' original blueprints, which they had introduced when they began franchising in 1953.
Opened in 1975, Valley West was once Des Moines' premier mall. But it's since been eclipsed by Jordan Creek Town Center , also in West Des Moines, which opened 5 miles away in 2004.
As such, the Des Plaines Oasis was closed on March 16, 2014; this allowed vendor contents to be removed and demolition to proceed. [11] The Tollway announced plans to widen the Tri-State Tollway, which resulted in the demolitions of the pavilions of the O'Hare Oasis in 2018 and the Hinsdale Oasis in 2021. [12] [13]
To get a sense of the concept, West Des Moines city leaders toured the then-new, 99-acre, General Growth-built RiverTown Crossings mall in metro Grand Rapids, Michigan.