Chas A. Stevens
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Chas A. Stevens was a Chicago department store. It started in 1886 as a catalog business and eventually grew to 29 locations. In 1988 the chain filed for bankruptcy and liquidated.
Its flagship State Street store was the hub of fashion in the forties, fifties and sixties in Chicago. It featured six floors of women's clothing only. The top floor housed a beauty salon called The Powder Box, which employed more than 50 operators and was famous for catering to visiting celebrities, etc. The display windows on the main floor were often chosen as the best in the city, and received many awards. It was a wonderful, elegant place to shop.
[edit] Known locations
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[edit] Illinois
- Aurora- Fox Valley Mall
- Bloomingdale- Stratford Square Mall (closed 1988)
- Cherry Valley- (Rockford) Cherryvale Mall (closed 1988)
- Chicago- State Street (flagship)
- Chicago- Ford City Mall (76th & Cicero Ave.)
- Calumet City- River Oaks Center
- Evergreen Park- Evergreen Plaza
- LaGrange Park- 333 N. LaGrange Rd.
- Joliet- Louis Joliet Mall - closed 1988
- Lombard- Yorktown Center
- Mount Prospect- Randhurst Mall - became Madigan's 1988, Madigan's closed 1991
- Oak Park
- Schaumburg- Woodfield Mall
- Skokie- Old Orchard Center
- Waukegan- Lakehurst Mall - closed 1988
- Winnetka- (Hubbard Woods) Greenbay Road
[edit] Indiana
- Merrillville - closed 1988
