The buyer of a suburban Chicago mall wants to trade food courts for forklifts. Chicago-based Bridge Industrial is under contract to buy Ford City Mall on the city’s Southwest Side with a $150 million ...
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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 ...
Ford City Mall could soon be sold and replaced with an industrial park, according to a letter obtained by WGN-TV. The letter, sent to constituents of the 18th Ward by Ald. Derrick Curtis, centers ...
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 new management team wants to revamp Chicago's Ford City Mall to make it a go-to shopping destination for families. The property will undergo several initial changes beginning in June 2014, including ...
They are sites of capitalism and memory — especially for young people. Remember Sbarro’s Pizza? The Lark? Gingiss Formalwear? Orange Julius? Malls are gathering spaces to shop, people-watch and hang ...
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