On Monday, Sears filed for bankruptcy after 132 years of operation, spurring a wave of eulogies and sometimes outright sentimentalizing for the company that got its start as the R.W. Sears Watch Co.

It’s been one heck of a run for Sears, and it’s not over yet. The Chicago-based company went from a retail giant with a skyscraper forever embedded into our skyline, to filing for Chapter 11 ...

The arrival of the Sears Wish Book catalog was always a monumental event at Christmas, and for kids like my brother, sister ...

The department store was formerly famous for its catalog and high-end offerings. — -- Sears was once a sparkling star of the retail world going back to the days before there was such a thing as a ...

It’s time for our Monthly with Mosley conversation. Judge Derek Mosley is a municipal court judge for the city of Milwaukee, who will soon become the director of Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center.

Before Amazon became the one-stop shop for practically everything, there was the Sears catalog. With one-fifth of Americans as subscribers, the catalog dominated the market and impacted the lives of ...

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Once upon a time—way before online shopping—you could order just about everything you needed from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog—including a house. In the early 20th century, the massive Sears ...

CHICAGO -- At more than 130 years old, Sears is woven into the fabric of American history. As its retail presence and cultural significance decline, we took a look back at the company through its long ...

Sears is currently singing the bankruptcy blues — but it's a little-known fact that the retail giant also helped nurture the musical genre spawned in the Deep South. Because that quintessentially ...