Lynn Becker

A large clock set in green, ornamental metal hanging from a building.

The long decline of Macy’s in Chicago, now a shell of a once-great department store

Marshall Field created the namesake store that was one of Chicago’s jewels. Field’s became Macy’s, and its value now is as the kind of real estate play that led to the extinction of stores like Sears and Kmart.

By Lynn Becker