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A detail of the front room in the Turek's Sears Catalog kit home.
Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune
A detail of the front room in the Turek’s Sears Catalog kit home.
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Many Sears kit homes, which were ordered from a catalog and built by the homeowner in the early 1900s, remain standing throughout Chicagoland, evoking a sense of nostalgia for better times in the department store’s history. Read the full story.