Sears executives decided that the space they would immediately occupy should be efficiently designed to house their Merchandise Group.

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.

They didn't trust Sears and believed he was trying to consolidate power at the expense of many longtime Reagan friends and backers.

" Sears had been attempting to consolidate power in the Reagan campaign in 1980.

In 1969, Sears, Roebuck & Co. was the largest retailer in the world, with approximately 350, 000 employees.

The largest employers in Hoffman Estates are Sears Holdings Corporation ( 5, 700 employees ), AT & T ( 4, 700 ), St. Alexius Medical Center ( 2, 121 ), GE Capital ( 800 ), Career Education Corporation ( 650 ), ADP ( 600 ), Siemens Medical Solutions ( 500 ), Leopardo ( 400 ), Liberty Mutual ( 400 ), Claire's ( 350 ), Bosch Rexroth ( 160 ), Mori Seiki ( 100 ) and FANUC ( 100 ).

During the time that Keck, Mahin & Cate was scheduled to move out of the Sears Tower, Sears planned to move its offices to its merchandise group facilities in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

Sears began moving its offices out of the Sears Tower in 1992.

AT & T has offices in the former G. C. Murphy side of the mall, while the former Sears portion has been subdivided into several other service-related businesses as well as a Family Dollar location and a Revol Wireless store.

Sears Canada Inc. () is a retailer, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, that operates in all provinces and territories across Canada with a network of 196 corporate stores, 195 dealer stores, 38 home improvement showrooms, 108 Sears Travel offices and a nationwide home maintenance, repair, and installation network.

As sales grew, Sears expanded production, shipping and sales offices to regional sites across the US, hitting its peak in 1929, just before the Great Depression.

On May 13, 2009, Sears announced that she would join the Atlanta offices of the large law firm Schiff Hardin.

In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $ 1. 50.

Danelectro was founded by Nathan Daniel in 1947 ; throughout the late 1940s, the company produced amplifiers for Sears, Roebuck and Company and Montgomery Ward.

Sears is the only anchor that has remained the same throughout the mall's life.

After this, Belk, Dillard's, Hecht's and Sears were the mall's anchor stores throughout the next decade.

There are more Sears homes dotted throughout Carlinville.

For the next 20 years, exhibits were held at various locations throughout the city, including the Meridian Public Library, the Strand Theatre, Alex Loeb Department Store, First National Bank, Merchants and Farmers Bank, Sears, the Broadmoor Shopping Center, and Weidmann's Restaurant.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

The United States ' two tallest towers are both located in Chicago ; Willis Tower ( formerly Sears Tower, and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere ), and Trump International Hotel and Tower.

* 1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1. 451 feet as the world's tallest building.

* Sears Tower in Chicago

Willis Tower ( formerly named and still commonly referred to as Sears Tower ) is a 108-story, 1, 451-foot ( 442 m ) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois.

Sears and the City of Chicago approved the design, and the first steel was put in place in April 1971.

By 1908 Rosenwald, son of an immigrant clothier, had become part-owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company in Chicago.

Major construction during his terms in office resulted in O ' Hare International Airport, the Sears Tower, McCormick Place, the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, numerous expressways and subway construction projects, and other major Chicago landmarks.

Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago and opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition.

Many of SOM's post-war designs have become icons of American modern architecture, including the Manhattan House ( 1950 ), designated as a New York City landmark in 2007 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission ; and the Lever House ( 1952 ), also in New York City ; as well as the Air Force Academy Chapel ( 1958 ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado ; and the John Hancock Center ( 1969 ) and Sears Tower ( 1973 ), both in Chicago.

* Willis Tower ( formerly Sears Tower ), Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1973

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Featuring many famous Chicago landmarks including the then Sears Tower and the Art Institute of Chicago, the film was Hughes ' love letter to the city: " I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could.

Ferris, Sloane and Cameron enjoy many sights of the city, including a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, visits to the Sears Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as well as taking part in the Von Steuben Day Parade, where Ferris lip-syncs to " Danke Schoen " and The Beatles ' version of " Twist and Shout " while riding on a parade float.

It is named after Julius Rosenwald, Chicago ( 1862-1932 ), President of Sears and Roebuck.

It owns the Sears Centre Arena, home site of the Chicago Express of the ECHL ice hockey league, the Chicago Slaughter of the Indoor Football League and the Chicago Bliss of the Lingerie Football League.

The business park came to fruition in 1993 when Sears, Roebuck and Company relocated from the Sears Tower in Chicago to a sprawling headquarters in the northwest part of Prairie Stone.

Sears and J. C. Penney left the downtown area in 1979 to open up as anchor stores in the new Flagstaff Mall, joined in 1986 by Dillard's.

Sears operates a stand-alone store in this area.

Mount Rainier has been listed as an historic area, due to its history not only as a primary streetcar suburb of Washington, D. C., but also due to the vast number of Sears houses and Craftsman-style homes, many of which have been restored.

* Rockaway Townsquare Mall, a high-end mall anchored by J. C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy's, & Sears with a gross leasable area of, placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey.

) Shortly after Wal-Mart opened, Sears moved across U. S. Route 224 from Wal-Mart while Lowe's, Hills, and Peebles all opened up locations in the area.

In 1975, original members Greg Elmore, Gary Duncan, Dave Freiberg, John Cippolina, and Dino Valenti reunited for the album, Solid Silver featuring cameo performances by Nicky Hopkins on a couple of tracks, plus contributions from various San Francisco area musicians, including Jefferson Starship's Pete Sears.

It offers stores like Liverpool, Sears, Zara, C & A, Starbucks, Sanborns, Tous, Cinemex movie theater, MixUp, boutiques, kiosks, food area, and a HSBC.

Across Bayview Road from this area is a renovated Sears kit house.

She purchased land for the museum in the marshy Fenway area of Boston, and hired architect Willard T. Sears to build a museum modeled on the Renaissance palaces of Venice.

Built in 1972, it was the first enclosed mall in the Washington, DC metropolitan area to house four high-end retail anchor stores: Garfinkel's, Hecht's ( owned by the May company ), Woodward and Lothrop ( popularly known as Woodies ), and Sears.

Apple wanted to sell their computers through department store chains ( such as Sears ), but this would conflict with existing authorized reseller agreements, in which a geographic area had only one reseller.

Starting with European settlement of this area in the mid-19th century considerable modification of the Napa Sonoma Marsh began to occur, such that in contemporary times, there is considerable upland between Sears Point and San Pablo Bay.

Father Sears, then priest in the area, established a church in the growing town of Stephenville.

The area is also home to many catalog ( Sears, Montgomery Ward, Radford, etc.

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.

The mall opened in 2002, and has 1, 330, 000 square feet of leasable area, and is anchored by Belk, J. C. Penney, Sears, Macy's and the first Nordstrom store in the state.

At Greenlawn Cemetery, near the Hampton Roads waterfront in the Newport News, Virginia, area, the cemetery office building is a 1936 Sears Catalog Home.

*" The Whole Kit and Caboodle ", a Washington Post article about Sears Catalog mail-order homes in the Washington, DC area

In 1989, Sears replaced Stern's after the latter closed several stores in the Philadelphia area.

Most of the mall was demolished and partially reconfigured circa 1995 ( except for the Sears wing and Mervyn's ) to make way for Wal-Mart and the area which now features Trader Joe's.

The Dover Mall was built as a second mall for the Dover area for Sears and other department stores after Sears was unable to come to an agreement to build a store at the Blue Hen Mall.