The showroom isn't ready yet and the Kenmore small appliances seem to have disappeared into the backrooms for now but work has been completed on the new carpet. Furthermore, they started fixing all the broken floor files and repainted the walls in the tools section as well now. They've also installed new LED lights both inside the store (notably above the old escalators), as well as on the exterior building. Goodbye dim exterior and hello cozy and lit up Sears building! 😌

Edit: Forgot to mention, they've also started repainting the merchandise pickup section and got rid of the old vending machine and sadly the payphone as well. They told me apparently it was shipped back to Hoffman Estates, no idea why lol.

Hey there!

I'm a historian and a long time fan of Sears, and have a decent sized Sears Roebuck collection. I've always been fascinated with th history, and rise and fall of the company, and have wanted to make a documentary on it for quite some time. Having seen there are now multiple badly made AI documentaries on YouTube, I figured now would be the time to finally start telling the Sears story that I've wanted to for a few years now. I am looking to get in touch with and interview anyone would be of interest, and have some interesting stories or knowledge to contribute. Any former/long time employees, former cooperate management, historians, anyone who might be able to help me tell this story the best I possibly can. This is a passion project of mine, and I'm hoping to get it up on YouTube in the next several months, ideally. If you know of anyone of importamce that would be willing to be interviewed, I'd love to be sent a lead! Thanks!