Traveling salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward had founded his mail order firm in 1872 in Chicago. Ward and two partners issued their first catalog that year featuring 163 items. By 1883, the Ward ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The Spirit of Progress, a statue installed on top of the Montgomery Ward administration building in 1929, was taken down Saturday for repairs. It will be ...

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. Just 18 months after ...

In 1939, Robert L. May was working as an in-house advertising copywriter at Montgomery Ward, a Chicago-based department store chain and catalog company. May dreamed of writing the great American ...

The statue has stood on the tower of the Montgomery Ward and Co. administration building since 1929. Constructed in 1927 on the east bank of the Chicago River, the building is now condominiums.

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. The statue has stood on the tower of the Montgomery Ward and Co. administration building since 1929. Constructed in 1927 on the east bank of the ...