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Article: What now for State Street? // Little damage from Wieboldt's demise
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 14, 1987
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With its departure from State Street in July, Wieboldt Stores
will join a group whose members include some of the biggest names in
Chicago retail history: Sears, Ward's, Goldblatt's and Lytton's.
Though any addition to that list of goliaths who've recently
abandoned the downtown shopping area may seem alarming, most retail
experts believe the long-term damage to the area from Wieboldt's
demise will be minimal.
"Aside from the short-term sorrow of seeing any store close,
it's a blip," one downtown retailer said. "It's a pimple on State
Street's face."
While the sites of Ward's and Goldblatt's further south in the
Loop have stood vacant for years, Wieboldt's 75-year-old building at ...