Sears executives decided to consolidate the thousands of employees in offices distributed throughout the Chicago area into one building on the western edge of Chicago's Loop.

While its former rivals Sears, J. C. Penney, Macy's, McRae's, and Dillard's established new anchor outlets in the growing number of suburban shopping malls, Avery and succeeding top executives had been reluctant to pursue such expansion.

After the Reagan camp lost the Iowa caucus and fell behind in New Hampshire polls, Nancy organized a second meeting and decided it was time to fire Sears and his associates ; she gave Sears a copy of the press release announcing his dismissal.

To target farmers, Sears bought time on radio stations, and then decided to form their own station.

In 1973, when Simpsons-Sears opened a store in the city of Mississauga, just west of Toronto, the company decided to use the " Sears " name alone in order to prevent confusion with Simpsons stores operating in Toronto.

Sears occupied the space the until 1986 when it decided to close the store and the space was leased to other tenants.

At that point, Sears decided to move their store from the south end of Dubuque to Kennedy Mall.

With immediate space demands of 3 million square feet ( 279, 000 m² ), and predictions for future growth necessitating more space, Sears commissioned architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill ( SOM ) to produce a structure to be one of the largest office buildings in the world.

But floor space for future growth would be rented out to smaller firms and businesses until Sears could retake it.

By 1990, Keck, Mahin & Cate, a law firm, considered moving out of its space in the Sears Tower and moving into a potential new development, which would become 77 West Wacker Drive.

All Simpsons stores that already had a Bay store next to them have been closed with either a new Sears store taking over the lease or the existing Bay store moving into the space.

In February 2006, the team from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EM: HE ) visited the town and rebuilt the Firehouse ( which included a new Firetruck worth $ 400, 000 ), the High School Auditorium and gave dozens of families $ 350 gift cards from Sears to replace items such as clothes, space heaters, blankets etc., lost due to Hurricane Rita.

Also, the redevelopment project consist of indoor water theme park, movie theatre, 250 room hotel, apartment space, additional retail space and parking garages to accommodate the current anchors Sears, Burlington Coat Factory and the additional tenants.

The massing and design would allow for a built area roughly equal to the amount of the adjacent Sears Tower, which along with the winter garden would create a publicly accessible urban space, similar to the historic Rockefeller Plaza in NYC.

* 1992: Steinberg is rebranded as Metro, whereas a new Sears opens at CIBC's former space.

Dynamite moves next to Sears, whereas original space of Dynamite becomes Le Garage.

* 2000: Sears moves to Eaton's former space while Super C closes down.

The Dynamite store, where it was once next to the original Sears location, and then at the mall's middle ( replacing the former Gigi space ), moves next door to Browns shoes.

The single-story structure encompasses of retail space and features more than 110 shops, two restaurants, a fast-food court with eight outlets, and four department stores including Sears, JCPenney, Macy's, and Forever 21.

The food court and Thalhimers department store joined the mall in a new wing ; however the addition of Lord & Taylor never materialized, although it was rumored for years that they'd take the Sears space.

The old Sears became small shop space and connected to a new, larger Hecht's which opened in August 1995.

Adjacent is the former City Hall East, prior to that the Sears building, which is being developed into Ponce City Market, with office, retail and residential space.

Office Max later leaves the mall, and Sears returns, taking the Office Max space.

Home Depot expressed interest in leasing the Sears space, but at the last-minute Sears re-signed their lease for another 3 years.

By 1999, Eaton's went bankrupt and its space became a Sears the following year, also relocating from the nearby defunct Heritage Mall.

Today what was originally Roshek's space in the mall is occupied by two other department stores, Sears and Younkers.

The band's basic line-up was drums, guitar and vocals, though when they formed their only instruments were a pair of maracas and a Sears Silvertone guitar purchased at a thrift shop.

By July, it had been confirmed that they would be billed as Twelfth Night, and in September, a 2nd gig was added and both Andy Revell and Brian Devoil were revealed as part of the line-up, with Mark Spencer ( formerly the vocalist in 80s prog band LaHost, Andy Sears ' one time flatmate, and an old friend of the band ) replacing Rick Battersby.

Oriole and Banner, in common with Jewel, the Sears & Roebuck label Challenge, and a few others, often used a standard set of " noms du disque " on their labels, rather than the actual names of the artists who recorded the tracks they issued.

By March 2001 Sears announced they were ceasing publication of the newly resurrected eatons catalogue " due to a lack of interest ".

Shane and Sia began modeling at the age of seven when they posed for a layout in the Sears mail-order catalog.

As with the companies that they bought, some of the labels were created exclusively for specific stores: Challenge and Conqueror ( Sears, Roebuck ), Oriole ( McCrory ), Romeo ( Kress ) and when the contracts ended, the labels ended too.

* Rob Shoebridge – Warnock heavily criticised Rob Shoebridge and his officials after another disputed incident at Ashton Gate, when Freddie Sears gave Palace what they thought was an early lead.

Blow married Mavis Sears in 1955, and they had two children.

While some Sears outlets tried to stock at least one sample of the car, most were built on demand by Kaiser-Frazer, which made delivery to the store where they were sold.

Rather than refusing point-blank to release it, he reminded the Dead that they were heavily in debt to WBR and would not see any royalties until this had been repaid ; he also pointed out that the provocative title would inevitably hurt sales because major retailers like Sears would refuse to stock it.

This lifetime warranty program was instituted by Sears when they began selling the Craftsman line in 1927.

Sears said that they were pleased with the group of seven players who committed to Cricket Kenya, while equally disappointed with those who refused contracts.

It has five major anchor stores ; they are: the Bay, Sears, Simons, Rona and Staples.

“ Later, they would give us a gift certificate to buy clothes at places like the Broadway, or Sears.

Sears heard about the Baha ' i Faith from his wife before they married.

When Baha ' is were called to pioneer around the world, Sears with his wife and two children pioneered to Africa where they stayed for about ten years.

In 1896, Castle married Clara Sears Bosworth, and they had three sons, one of whom died as a teenager.

Richard Sears knew that farmers often brought their crops to town where they could be sold and shipped, and then bought supplies, often at very high prices, from local general stores.

In the mid-19th century, as the United States transitioned to an industrial economy, national corporations like Proctor & Gamble, Railway Express, Sears & Roebuck and others recognized that someone could work for the companies for 20 plus years, reach an old age, and then have no income after they could no longer work.

Though the papers have long been disputed, recent scholarship by historians including Stephen W. Sears and Edward Steers, Jr. has tended to favor their authenticity, though few who believe in their authenticity contend they were written by anyone other than Dahlgren himself.

From 2004-2006 it also housed the Chicago Storm Major Indoor Soccer League team before they moved into the newly constructed Sears Centre.

Toys " R " Us, Sears, and Payless Shoe Source all announced that they would carry merchandising from the series and showcase that merchandise in its own separate " boutique " rather than integrating it with the other products.

Tom and Karen enter a nearby house, only to discover locals Doreen ( Betty White ) and Henry Sears ( Richard Dysart ) who believe they are looters.

Justice Sears would have held an alcohol-check roadblock an unconstitutional search / seizure because, in her view, the particular roadblock allowed individual officers too much discretion -- “ field officers had the discretion to control the time, the place, and the duration of the road block .” At the same time that she argued on the grounds that officers were given too much discretion, she noted that the officers in the case were required by supervisors ’ policy to stop every car when they put the road block into effect.