The first Chicago-area Champs Sports will open in the Ford City mall in September. Recently, Woolworth`s bought a 14-unit shoe store chain in Belgium and the Netherlands. The stores, to be renamed ...

“I really feel bad for the steadies,” sighed Hojlo, a thin, gray-haired clerk at the Woolworth store in the heart of the Chicago’s Lakeview community. “I feel like a bartender. They tell ...

Indeed, it was. F.W. Woolworth, J.J. Newberry and W.T. Grant were familiar “variety store” names in 20th century America, operating hundreds of stores nationwide that sold everyday goods ...

Do you remember Woolworth’s store on Main Street? The KeyBank is now located where Woolworth’s was in the 1970s. In 1972 a dangerous fire destroyed the Woolworth building. The fire began before ...