Montgomery Ward announced Thursday that it would file for bankruptcy and close its 250 stores throughout the country, including its store at Longview's Triangle Mall.

Montgomery Ward Inc., the country's first catalog retailer, said Thursday it will close up shop after 128 years in business and numerous attempts to reinvent itself.

Officially, the building on the corner of Peoples and Chaparral was built just over 90 years ago, but that may not be the case. This CBH covers the mystery of the Montgomery Ward Building.

Montgomery Ward had closed stores over the last 20 years in Iowa City, Cedar Falls, Keokuk, Marshalltown, Monticello, Oelwein and Waterloo. The stores in Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and ...

Montgomery Ward vacated the building and it was bought by Loeb Partners Realty, a New York City-based real estate consultant firm, with the original plan to turn it into a mall.

CHICAGO (AP) Montgomery Ward, the 128-year-old retailer that helped invent mail-order and ran stores in 30 states, is closing after losing customers to newer chains from Target to the ...

Many a U. S. town too small to belong to the Kiwanis International is large enough to have its own luncheon club of town merchants. Many such clubs look with alarm at the entrance of the first ...

The first Montgomery Ward location in Spokane opened in 1927 in the Reliance Building at Second Avenue and Lincoln Street. The expansion of the longtime mail order retailer into physical stores in ...

In 2000, Montgomery Ward filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, announcing that it would go out of business after 128 years, unable to survive in the age of Target and Walmart.