As the monumental Merchandise Mart was being erected next to the Chicago River in the 1920s, the owner of the structure-in-progress ordered that, along one exterior wall of the edifice, ...

For the next 15 years, biopharmaceutical firm Incyte Corp. will lease the former John Wanamaker building on Augustine Cut-off ...

Employees of the John Wanamaker Department Store founded the Millrose Athletic Association in 1908 and began running the Millrose Games that year at a local armory (a building where weapons and ...

The organ set Wanamaker’s apart from the city’s other well-known department stores. By the 1920s, the store hosted evening concerts that featured internationally renowned organists and ...

John Wanamaker bought the organ from the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis and shipped it to Philadelphia in 1909. ... Macy's says this store closing will affect around 128 employees.