Tribune file photo by Lynette MillerA Sears store at 63rd and Halsted Streets
Michael Budrys, Tribune file photoThe Sears Business Machine Systems Center in Arlington Heights in 1982.
Tribune photo by Jim RobinsonAnimal Crackers at Sears?How radical! Sears takes cues from neighbors Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl's at its store opening Wednesday in Gurnee. Grocery items, toys and consumer electronics as well as traditional shoes and clothes.
Tribune photo by George ThompsonBigger than Big K, the Kmart Super Centers added groceries. Fleming Cos., Kmart's sole food supplier, stopped shipments this week, helping trigger Kmart's bankrupcy filing.
File photoThe Sears store in Park Forest in 1964.
File photoThe birthplace of Sears was this railroad station in North Redwood, Minn. A young station agent, Richard W. Sears, launched the business in 1886 and moved it to Chicago in 1887.
File photoA Sears store in Columbus, Ohio, in 1964.
File photoThe Sears catalog on video disc in 1981.
Tribune file photo by Michael FryerSears closed its Old Town store in 1990.
Car Hugare, Tribune file photoThe women's section of the Sears store in Oak Brook in 1983.
Tribune file photoThe first Sears store opened in Chicago on the West Side in 1925.
Detroit Free PressThe S.S. Kresge Co.'s first store in Detroit opened in 1899, with hitching posts for eight horse-drawn carriages. The store contained 2,000 square feet of sales space, employed 18 persons and carried some 1,500 sales items ? none costing more than a dime.
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Coverage of Sears Roebuck & Co. merger with Kmart Holding Corp., from Chicago Tribune business staff.
