Sears To Close Its Last Chicago Store

CHICAGO, IL — Sears is closing its remaining store in Chicago this summer following a liquidation store later this month, according to the Chicago Tribune. On Thursday, the struggling Hoffman Estates-based retailer told employees at the Six Corners shopping center in Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side that the store will be shuttered in mid-July, while its auto department will close in mid-May, the report added.

The store at 4730 Irving Park Road will begin a liquidation sale April 27. The closing comes nearly a year after Sears closed its Chicago location at 1601 N. Harlem Ave. The Portage Park store opened in 1938, a little more than a decade after the then-mail-order company began creating retail outlets.

A Sears spokesman would not say how many workers were being let go, but employees will be provided severance and allowed to apply for openings at other locations, the report stated. The company still has 150 people working at corporate offices in the Loop, and the representative told the Tribune that the closing doesn't "change our commitment to our customers and presence to Chicago’s residents."

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Sears still has stores open in Schaumburg, Niles, Chicago Ridge, North Riverside, Bloomingdale, Vernon Hills and Oak Brook. Earlier this year, the Orland Park location announced it was closing this month with part of the store at Orland Square Mall to be renovated and turned into a 10-screen movie theater.

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Sears will close its location at 4730 Irving Park Road in the Portage Park neighborhood, the struggling retailer's final store in Chicago. (Image via Google Earth)