For decades, Regency Square mall was Ground Zero for Black Friday shopping in Jacksonville, with thousands of shoppers packing the Arlington mall’s stores, food court, corridors and more.

For decades, Regency Square was Ground Zero for Black Friday shopping in Jacksonville, with thousands of shoppers packing the Arlington mall’s stores, food court, corridors and more.

Illinois farmers ... shoppers in downtown Jacksonville could hear train whistles blowing while they browsed at clothing and record stores around a historic square with a towering Civil War monument.