# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lost Chicago Department Stores Presented by LESLIE GODDARD
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: For decades, Chicago was home to some of America's grandest department stores. 

For more information, visit https://calendar.dppl.org/event/12249971

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 lecture, historian and author Leslie Goddard, Ph.D., revisits Chicago's fabulous retail emporiums and explores their rise and fall.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/des-plaines/lost-chicago-department-stores-presented-by-leslie-goddard/200028273645211
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, shopping, holiday
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028273645211?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=des+plaines-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Des Plaines
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Des Plaines Public Library
- **lat**: 42.040466826895
- **long**: -87.88737236916
- **full address**: Des Plaines Public Library, 1501 Ellinwood Ave,Des Plaines, Illinois, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Des Plaines Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/des-plaines-public-library/12892453)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 25 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Des Plaines Public Library, 1501 Ellinwood Ave,Des Plaines, Illinois, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Des Plaines Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, shopping, holiday
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Lost Chicago Department Stores Presented by LESLIE GODDARD ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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