
Sears is closing its last department store in Illinois, the retailer's home state
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Sears will shut the doors on its last department store in Illinois come fall; the state in which its first retail store opened in 1925.
The Sears department store in the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, a Chicago suburb, will close on November 14.

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