MINNEAPOLIS -- After years of failing to get much growth out of its department store division, Target Corp. is going to let someone else try. May Department Stores Co. announced Wednesday that it's ...

Marshall Field’s has returned to State Street for the holiday season. It’s been almost 20 years since the brand was just about discarded from its longtime emporium on State Street by the new owner, ...

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Author and historian Leslie Goddard’s fascination with department stores runs in the family. Her grandfather was a department store lifer, working first for Marshall Field’s then Carson Pirie Scott.

CINCINNATI -- Federated Department Stores Inc. said today it is planning to cut up to 6,200 jobs beginning in 2006, including 1,700 in St. Louis at the corporate offices of May Department Stores Co.

Our travels took us to the Windy City recently to celebrate a milestone event in our marriage. To better understand one of America’s great cities and its origin, we took a walking tour of the city. I ...

For 127 years, shopping on Chicago’s State Street meant one thing: Marshall Field’s, the hallmark department store that has stood at that address since the White Sox were the White Stockings. Come ...

In the 1970s I visited Chicago for the first time and was surprised to find a 38-story office building called the Pittsfield Building. I was even more surprised to learn that the building had a ...

Neither of North Dakota's two Marshall Field's stores - in Fargo and Grand Forks - will be closed or jobs eliminated when the retailer officially becomes Macy's in fall 2006. New Marshall Field's ...

For a man who would go on to amass a great fortune from his elegant department store, Marshall Field had humble beginnings. Chicago Stories is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...