1. History

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Oakbrook Center is a shopping center located near Interstate 88 and Route 83 in Oak Brook, Illinois. It was originally opened in 1962. It is the second largest shopping center in the Chicago metropolitan area by gross leasable area, only surpassed by Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois.^[3] Current anchor stores include Macy's, (formerly Marshall Field's), Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Sears.

History

Oakbrook Center, which was originally to be named Oakbrook Terrace (but the name was changed when a town near the mall took that name), opened in 1962 with Sears and Marshall Field's, as well as a Jewel Food Store. Bonwit Teller was later added, as was Lord & Taylor in 1973 on the south side. I. Magnin, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus joined the center in a 1981-1982 expansion that doubled the physical size of the center with a new southeast court.

In 1987, a four-screen movie theater (which closed in 2001 and then reopened in 2018) was added near Saks Fifth Avenue. Bonwit Teller closed their location in 1990, while I. Magnin was shuttered in January 1991, with its former site subdivided in 1994 for specialty stores, including Eddie Bauer and Tiffany & Company. In 1991, a new two-story, open-air addition opened northeast of Sears. Built on top of a parking garage, it added 210,000 ft² of mall retail and a 220,000 ft² Nordstrom. ^[4] Maggiano's Little Italy opened that same year. Corner Bakery Cafe opened to customers on December 3, 1992. In 1998, Urban Outfitters and Wildfire Restaurant opened.

Saks Fifth Avenue closed their store in 2002 and sold the store to Federated Department Stores, which used the site to open a 90,000 sq.ft., three story Bloomingdale's Home store on September 12, 2003. Cheesecake Factory opened in August 2004. Marshall Field's adopted the Macy's name on September 8, 2006 with Macy's buying the parent company. On November 12, 2008, Barnes & Noble opened. ^[5] A year later, in 2009, American Apparel (which closed in 2017) opened. In 2010, Gibson's Bar And Steakhouse opened across the street from the Mall. Forever 21 opened in the mall in April of that same year. Pandora opened its doors in 2011.

General Growth Properties acquired a half-interest and management of the mall in 2004, when it acquired The Rouse Company (which had itself acquired its stake the mall in 2002). It is currently co-owned by Brookfield Properties Retail Group and CalPERS.

Pinstripes opened as a stand-alone location in the mall parking lot in 2012. In November 2013, Perry’s Steakhouse opened in the former basement level of Neiman Marcus.

On January 4, 2012, Bloomingdale's announced that it would close its Oakbrook Home store by March of the year. Two years later in 2014, that building was split and fully leased out to six smaller tenants: The Container Store on the first level; Lululemon Athletica, Tommy Bahama, Hugo Boss, and Aritzia on the second level; and the first Pirch store outside of California on the third level. PIRCH closed its store on September 30, 2017 as it returned to its original California roots.

In August 2014, Le Méridien opened a 172 guestroom hotel in a former Renaissance Hotel, which was originally a Stouffer Hotel. This is their first in the state of Illinois.^[6]

On June 20, 2017, Sears announced that its Oakbrook Center store would be closing temporarily in September 2017. It reopened on October 5, 2018 using only the first level of the building, while the leftover space will be occupied by KidZania on the third level and parts of the second level by 2019. The remaining space on the second floor is occupied by Ballard Designs and L.L. Bean, the latter of which opened on November 9, 2018 and the former of which opened during fall 2018. Additionally, the Sears Auto Center at Oakbrook Center closed permanently in March 2018. The land that the center sat on will be occupied by a fitness center that will open sometime in 2020.^[7][8]

On February 26, 2018, it was announced that Lord & Taylor would be closing permanently in January 2019.^[9] Also in 2018, AMC Theatres opened a new 12-screen cinema in a remodeled section of the Nordstrom wing; this remodeling also included a new food hall named "The District".

References

External links

• Website
• Encyclopedia of Chicago entry
• Oakbrook Center Review

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