Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago

Name: Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
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ISBN: 9781626190672

ISBN-10: 1626190674

ISBN-13: 9781626190672

Edition: 2013

Authors: Gayle Soucek

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Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line forthe Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to MarshallField’s is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around townto apologize for changing the Field’s hallowed green bags. And with goodreason—the store and those who ran it shaped the city’sstreets, subsidized its culture and heralded its progress. The resultingcommercial empire dictated wholesale trade terms in Calcutta and sponsoredtowns in North Carolina, but its essence was always Chicago. So when the MarshallField name was retired in 2006 after the stores were purchased by Macy’s,protest slogans like “Field’s is Chicago” and “Field’s: as Chicago as it…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: History Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 160
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface to the New Edition


Foreword



Acknowledgements


Introduction. Why Marshall Field's Matters



From the Farm to the City: Making of a Merchant



Growth and Rebirth: Field, Leiter & Company



Fire and Survival: Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire



Change and Philanthropy: The Merchant's Final Years



Continuing the Vision: The John Shedd Years



Progress and Despair: The Great Depression and the World's Fair



From the City to the Suburbs: The Changing Face of Retail



A Child's Dream: Christmas at Field's



Winds of Change: BATUS and Target



An Icon Vanishes: The Coming of Macy's


Epilogue. State Street Today


Appendix. Marshall Field's Recipes


Bibliography