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Deer Park Town Center sold in reported $125 million deal

By Charles Keeshan
Sep 24, 2026 11:28 am - For the second time in as many days, a major northwest suburban shopping center has been sold, this time for a reported $125 million price that would make it the largest Chicago-area retail deal in a decade.
Toys R Us makes a comeback with new store in Lombard

By JANE MILLER
Sep 24, 2026 10:28 am - Nearly a decade after closing most of its stores in the state, Toys R Us is making a comeback in Illinois.
Starbucks to shutter 250 stores in North America this week in 2nd wave of closings

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
Sep 24, 2026 10:01 am - It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe and laid off 900 non-retail employees.
Renaissance for Randhurst? Nevada firm pays $95 million for Mount Prospect mall

By Steve Zalusky
Sep 23, 2026 11:00 am - Mount Prospect officials confirned that Randhurst Village has been sold.
MOM’s Organic Market now eyeing spring 2027 opening for Naperville store

By CAROLYN STEIN
Sep 18, 2026 10:52 am - MOM’s Organic Market, a grocery store chain focused on organic produce and ingredients, has pushed back the opening of its new Naperville location to spring 2027.
Lake County voters to decide on sales tax to pay for school improvements

By Mick Zawislak
Sep 17, 2026 4:30 pm - Voters throughout Lake County will be asked Nov. 3 whether a 1% sales tax should be imposed to be used exclusively to improve school facilities or to hire school resource officers and mental health professionals.
Retail sales rise a better-than-expected 1.2% in August after shoppers pulled back spending in July

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Sep 16, 2026 8:10 am - Consumers stepped up their spending at a better-than-anticipated pace in August after an unexpectedly sharp pullback in July.
Skokie’s Village Crossing Shopping Center sells in landmark retail deal

By CLAIRE MURPHY
Sep 14, 2026 10:29 am - In reportedly the largest Chicago-area retail deal in a decade, Skokie’s Village Crossing has sold for a record-setting $122 million, a spokesperson for Fairbourne Properties, LLC, the shopping center’s buyer, confirmed to Pioneer Press.
Westfield Old Orchard in Skokie celebrates 70 years as North Shore landmark

By CLAIRE MURPHY
Sep 09, 2026 12:17 pm - It was the morning of Monday, Oct. 22, 1956, when the doors of a new Marshall Field & Company, the crown jewel among Chicago’s retail royalty, opened for the first time in Skokie. The gleaming three-story, 310,000-square-foot department store would serve as the anchor tenant to what would soon become the metropolis of postwar suburban shopping in Chicago’s North Shore: Old Orchard Shopping Center.
Ice skating path, band shell, shops and more still on the table for old St. Charles police station site on Fox River

By Molly Morrow
Sep 08, 2026 12:30 pm - An ice skating path, a bandshell, shops or an open-air market space are all still on the table for St. Charles’ old police station site, as the city continues to mull what it will do with the downtown riverfront property that’s been vacant for several years.

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