The flagship store of Marshall Field's on State Street is an experience that few should miss when visiting Chicago. As the advert from the 1970s says "Marshall Field's IS Chicago". For well over 150 years Marshall Field's has stood for excellence in retail shopping, as the first Mr. Field ... Read review
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Advantages: The Architecture, the staff, the selection, the atmosphere Disadvantages: If it doesn't get changed to being called Macy's, then NONE!
The flagship store of Marshall Field's on State Street is an experience that few should miss when visiting Chicago. As the advert from the 1970s says "Marshall Field's IS Chicago". For well over 150 years Marshall Field's has stood for excellence in retail shopping, as the first Mr. Field believed that women should take pleasure in the drudgery of shopping. He believed that his employees should "give the woman what she wants" - the precursor to "the ... ...money one last time at Marshall Field's on State Street in Chicago, before it became Macy's, the Federated Department Stores Inc., are now reconsidering removing the name Marshall Field's from this branch. HURRAH!!! Please watch this space for further updates.
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I remember as a kid, going into town with my father on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The thing to do was to walk down State Street and look at all the newly unveiled Christmas decorations ...
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Advantages: A great city, with every amenity Disadvantages: Bloody cold in December, and I lost my hat!
...will be familiar, at least in name, to anyone who has read any of Sarah Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski novels. It could also be for the elevated railway; or ‘El’ as its familiarly known…but that would be cheating, and I never cheat! Anyway, the Loop is the area inside the loop of the aforementioned ‘El’, and is more or less the area bounded by the Chicago River, Lake Michigan and various bits of the elegantly nomclematured Wacker Avenue. It’s almost entirely made up of BIG BUILDINGS (see ‘A’ above) and some fine shops, including MarshallFields, which shouldn’t be mixed up with Soldier Fields, where the Chicago Bears play football. No-one plays football in MarshallFields…it’s a department store fer gawds sake!
M is for Michigan Avenue, The first street in from the lake – Lake Michigan, that is, and home of many fine stores, the Illinois Institute of Art...
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I have read a few books by Katie Fforde and have always found them light and enjoyable reads. 'Paradise Fields' was no exception and was just the right book to wind down with over Christmas!
The story centres around Nel, a fairly young widow with... more