Death of the department store? Not so fast: This Florida museum shows why we shop

Walk up a marble double staircase, step off onto the second floor and follow the faint scent of perfume to the fragrance ...
Chicago Tribune

In Elmhurst, ‘Lost Chicagoland Department Stores’ is a small exhibition remembering our biggest stores

Author and historian Leslie Goddard’s fascination with department stores runs in the family. Her grandfather was a department store lifer, working first for Marshall Field’s then Carson Pirie Scott.
Post and Courier

Museum around the corner: A hotel and department store

Question from last week: What hotel on Front Street incorporated Fogel’s Department Store, built in 1932? Hotels and boarding houses have long been located on Front Street and around the town.
Chicago Tribune

Lost Chicagoland Department Stores exhibit to open Friday at Elmhurst History Museum

The Elmhurst History Museum’s newest exhibit, “Lost Chicagoland Department Stores,” opening Oct. 6, will honor the heyday of such Chicago area department stores as Marshall Field & Co., Carson Pirie ...
AOL

19 Iconic Department Stores That No Longer Exist

Today, it's easy to go on a shopping spree without leaving your couch, but it wasn't long ago that shopping was an event, and heading to a fancy department store might even require getting dressed in ...
CNN

How America’s once great department stores became a dying breed

Macy’s announcement Tuesday that it will close 150 stores, or nearly a third of its total, is the result of a once-great department store industry in decades of decline. The gradual demise of the ...
Los Angeles Times

Take a trip through the magnificent department stores of old L.A.

“Shop till you drop” did not always mean “shop till your phone drops from your trembling, bargain-hunting hand.” For a very long while, “going shopping” in Los Angeles, especially for the holidays, ...