A Kmart stores in Peoria, and Sears stores in Danville and Decatur will close by the end of the year as parent company Sears Holdings tries to reverse mounting financial losses. Published reports ...

MORTON – The village's Kmart store closed in 2016 ... a freeway that provides easy access to Peoria and Bloomington. The building can be seen clearly by the 40,000 or so drivers who pass ...

Another seconded that notion: "First high-end store I can remember in Peoria." The big-box department store chain was founded as Kresge's in 1899. It was renamed Kmart Corporation in 1977.

Realtor Dan Maloof of Peoria-based Maloof Commercial Real Estate, who brokered the U-Haul real estate deal in Morton, said the impending sale of the former Kmart building is a sign of the times.