North Riverside Park Mall is a shopping mall located in

North Riverside, Illinois North Riverside is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 7,426. Geography North Riverside is located at (41.846222, -87.829585). According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, North R ...

. It is owned by

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and the mall's anchor stores are

JCPenney Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Gir ...

and Round 1 Entertainment. There are 2 vacant anchor stores last occupied by

Carson's Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (also known as Carson's) is an American department store that was founded in 1854, which grew to over 50 locations, primarily in the Midwestern United States. Sold to the holding company of Bon-Ton in 2006, but still ope ...

and

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

History

In 1975, the mall opened with 3 department stores which were JCPenney, Carson Pirie Scott, and Montgomery Ward. Madigan's operated as a junior anchor in the mall until the early 1990s, when its space was divided between

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and

TJ Maxx TJ Maxx (stylized as T•J•maxx) is an American department store chain, selling at prices generally lower than other major similar stores. It has more than 1,000 stores in the United States, making it one of the largest clothing retailers in ...

, both of which opened in 1994. By 2005, TJ Maxx had been closed and replaced with

Steve & Barry's Steve & Barry's was an American retail clothing chain, featuring casual clothing, footwear and accessories. By mid-2008, the chain operated 276 stores in 39 states. The company was headquartered in Port Washington, New York. The company liquidate ...

. After that chain went out of business in 2009, its space was taken over by Conway, a division of

National Stores National Stores Inc., was a family-owned company headquartered in the Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, California, Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles, California with 88 locations in 5 states including Puerto Rico, and employed 2200 people nationwide ...

. In May 2015, Conway was converted into Fallas. The

store was originally occupied by

Montgomery Ward Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later also a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The curren ...

until that chain went out of business in 2001. The opening of Sears coincided with a $5 million renovation plan. In December 2010, portions of the film '' Contagion'' were filmed at the mall. In 2015,

Sears Holdings Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. It was the 20th-l ...

spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at North Riverside Park Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties. In 2017, Sears downsized its store to the upper level. Its lower level is now Round One Entertainment and AMITA Health. On April 18, 2018, it was announced that

would be closing as parent company

The Bon-Ton Stores Bon-Ton Holdings Inc. is an American online retailer and former department store chain founded in 1898. After rapid expansion in the 1990s and early 2000s, the original company had financial troubles, ultimately filing for bankruptcy in 2018 ...

was going out of business. The store closed on August 29, 2018. Fallas also closed in 2018. In 2020,

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affected the mall, which was still closed due to the

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, and surrounding shopping centers in North Riverside and neighboring Berwyn, resulting in break-ins, looting, and a shooting fatality on the property. On July 1, 2020, it was announced that Sears would close in September 2020, as part of a plan to close 28 stores nationwide, leaving

as the only traditional anchor store left. Encore Shoes opened in the former Fallas space.

Bus routes

CTA *21 Cermak

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*322 Cermak Road/22nd Street

References

External links

* {{Shopping malls in Illinois Shopping malls in Cook County, Illinois Shopping malls established in 1975 1975 establishments in Illinois