As one of Chicago's largest tech employers, it's fitting that our team works hard in a building with the Echo logo on it ... was first constructed as the Montgomery Ward Catalog House.

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 ...

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 ...

Towering eight stories over Broadway, it welcomes drivers to Menands. What was once home to retail giant Montgomery Ward, the building is one of four remaining reinforced concrete structures built ...

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 ...