The flagship of the Boston Store chain was actually located in Chicago, where the chain was founded.
"The new Boston Store, built in phases between 1905 and 1917, was seventeen stories tall and had twenty acres of floor space. Its facilities included a post office, a Western Union office, a savings bank, a barber shop, a first-aid station, several soda fountains and restaurants, and an observation tower 325 feet above street level. A cigar factory on the seventeenth floor was capable of producing three million stogies a year. For the four thousand Chicagoans employed by the firm, there were private reading rooms, employee lunchrooms, and a full-sized tennis court on the roof. "
...for those in Illinois, Boston Store is also Bergners or Carson Pirie Scott. I used to work for the company - both in Illinois and Wisconsin and we lived for the yellow tag sale. When you added on your employee discount, they were practically paying us to take the merchandise home!
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