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For house hunters, Sears catalogs were like scrolling through Zillow before scrolling through Zillow was a thing.

By 1893, the successful watch sales partnership between Sears and Roebuck formally launched as Sears, Roebuck, and Company.

Next City reports on a Minneapolis housing authority’s initiative to build affordable homes through modular construction and ...

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (CBS) --An era has come to an end in northwest suburban Hoffman Estates, as crews on Thursday were ...

Sears sold his first watch. Part of the great success of Sears, Roebuck and Co. had to be attributed to the skill Sears used in crafting the text in his company's catalog. One observer called Sears ...

The impressive comeback of Sears, Roebuck and Co. was one of the major success stories of the 1990s. Sears was losing billions of dollars a year in the early 1990s but recovered to become one of the ...

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving ...

Beginning in the late 1800s, retailers such as Sears, Roebuck and Co. sent out fat catalogs filled with everything from sewing machines and saddles to bicycles and baby buggies for sale.

At the heart of the issue: Was the hiring of Acevedo at the urging of Madigan aide Michael McClain a case of a lobbyist ...

Sears (officially Sears, Roebuck & Company) is a chain of American department stores. The company was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1886; it was previously based in ...

Between 1908 and 1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold nearly 75,000 kit homes through its Modern Homes program, which featured 447 styles of houses, ranging from large multistory dwellings to tiny ...