National Hunger Awareness Month Food Drive

Throughout September, BPL will be collecting non-perishable food for the Bloomingdale Township Food Pantry in conjunction with the village-wide National Hunger Awareness Food Drive! Please drop canned or boxed food in the library lobby donation bins. Visit our website for a list of most requested food at the pantry. Thank you!

VIRTUAL: Lost Chicago Department Stores

Program Type:

Lectures, Virtual

Age Group:

Adults
Registration for this event will close on November 18, 2024 @ 5:30pm.
There are 474 seats remaining.

Event Details

For decades, Chicago was home to some of America's grandest department stores. 

Clustered along a mile-long stretch of State Street, stores like Marshall Field's; Carson, Pirie, Scott; Sears; Wieboldt's; Montgomery Ward's; and Goldblatt's set new standards for retail innovation, customer service, and visual display. Generations of Chicagoans trekked to these stores for holiday shopping, celebrations, and fun. 

In this illustrated lectured, historian and author Leslie Goddard, Ph.D., revisits Chicago's fabulous retail emporiums and explores their rise and fall. 

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