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Wonderverse immersive adventures experience to open at Oakbrook Center

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s first immersive entertainment/dining complex is situated in the site of the former Sears store.

Chicago Sun-Times

“I was so frustrated that I kicked my amp – the speaker busted, leaving me with this weird buzzing sound. I didn’t know it then, but I helped create the sound of punk-rock guitar”: How an Italian immigrant shaped the sound of US punk to come in the 1960s

Known as the godfather of punk guitar, The Standells’ Tony Valentino was one of the first guitarists to use Vox amps, and, in a fit of rage, created a guitar tone that would be emulated the world over

Guitar World

Data center developer Compass hopes business will hum at old Sears site

The Hoffman Estates property the retailer occupied in 1992 is likely to get a drastic makeover as empty offices make way for cyberspace.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Minesweeper, Solitaire, and a '90s Moral Panic

When computers came to offices, bosses found a new way to worry that workers were wasting time.

Reason

$1 million Driehaus grant will help revive historic Sears garden

The grant — announced this weekend — helps cover the planned $5 million restoration and rehabilitation of the 1907 North Lawndale garden.

Chicago Sun-Times

Remembering David Lindley: A tribute to one of the greatest slide players and multi-instrumentalists of all time

Sideman and session player to Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and more, David Lindley leaves behind a formidable musical legacy

Guitar World

JCPenney goes back to department store roots to shake retail ‘road kill’ rap

Sometimes the relevance of a retailer is decided by people who don’t shop there. It’s a Wall Street vs. Main Street, high-income vs. mid-to-low-income kind of thing.

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Rush plans 60,000-square-foot outpatient medical center on former Sears site

The $70 million center at North and Harlem avenues will have 90 exam rooms, providing everything from urgent and primary care to imaging and diagnostic services.

Chicago Sun-Times

How to be an ace engineer: F2 and damper specialist Gavin Bickerton-Jones

Years of preparing his own karts and single-seater cars gave Gavin Bickerton-Jones plenty of the core skills needed to make a career from motorsport. But never one to rest on his laurels, Norfolk-based Bickerton-Jones developed a specialism in dampers that has made him one of the most in-demand engineers in…

Autosport

Editorial: Goodbye, Sears. Now Chicago needs to nurture its next great company

Holiday traditions come and go, but for many Chicagoans of a certain age, Christmas started when the “Wish Book” arrived in the mailbox from Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Chicago Tribune

Is Simons Canada’s Next Great Department Store?

As other large North American retailers falter and close, the Quebec-based company has thrived

The Walrus

Will Bed Bath & Beyond sink like Sears or rise like Best Buy?

The company has been on a rollercoaster of crises, including a meme-stock rise and crash. Its latest financial report comes Thursday.

WEKU

As ACC looks to address revenue gap, competing worldviews emerge on future of college sports

In the span of about a week, in cities separated by about 600 miles, two of the most powerful leaders in college athletics offered contrasting worldviews in this summer of massive change and uncertainty. One of them espoused the supposed values of the traditional collegiate sports model; the other embraced…

Tribune News Service

Thousands of homeless people in LA's old Sears building? Some in Boyle Heights say no way

LOS ANGELES — Bill Taormina had 17 minutes to convince the crowd in the auditorium of Boyle Heights Resurrection School to back his plan to turn their shuttered neighborhood Sears into a giant homeless services hub.

Los Angeles Times

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Axios

More than 70 Sears stores to close across country

The Sears Hometown liquidation sales have begun and will vary in length.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kmart nears extinction

Kmart’s decline has been slow but steady, brought about by years of falling sales, changes in shopping habits and the looming shadow of Walmart

The Independent UK

Once a retail giant, Kmart down to 3 stores after NJ closing

When the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, closes its doors on April 16, it will leave only three remaining U.S. locations for the former retail powerhouse

The Guardian - US

Share the profits! Why US businesses must return to rewarding workers properly

The economy is booming and corporate profits are huge, but American wages still stagnate. History provides the answer

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The last big Sears in Pennsylvania is closing: 'They've been dropping like flies'

The last large-format Sears department store in Pennsylvania, at the Willow Grove Park mall in the Philadelphia suburbs, will close its doors permanently, perhaps in about a month.

The Independent UK

Virginia's 1st female lt. gov. takes her seat in the Senate

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has taken her seat for the first day presiding over the Virginia Senate as the state’s first woman to serve as lieutenant governor and the first Black woman to hold statewide office

Fortune

Will Wal-Mart take over the world?

So long, Sears. Move over, K mart. This outback discounter is rising fast—and is No. 5 in Fortune's latest survey of America's most admired corporations.

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