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Article: Antiques mall opens // Bidding for upscale collectors
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 16, 1990
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Chicago has a new antiques mall, but it's not the place to get a
good deal on a cracked Fiesta ware plate. Instead, you can get a set
of Regency dining chairs for $8,200 or a 18th century clock for
$9,800.
It's the Chicago Antiques Center, 12 mini-shops in 6,800 square
feet of booths designed to look like rows of charming British
storefronts. The center, just opened at 215 W. Ohio, is the latest
project of Leslie Hindman, the city's most prominent auctioneer and
certainly its perkiest.
"We have millions of people who are coming here all the time and
they want to buy stuff! So I decided to take a floor of this
building and turn it into an antiques center," says Hindman, who was ...