- Title
- Des Plaines Superblock, 1977
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- Date
- October 11 1977
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- Description
- Captioned photographs from the November 10, 1977 edition of the Des Plaines Journal showing the evolution of the Superblock development scheme in downtown Des Plaines. The photograph at the bottom right shows representatives of the Des Plaines Mall management company, the architects and developer of the the Superblock development, as well as Robert Spiegler of Spiegler's Department Store and Arthur Weiss of the First National Bank of Des Plaines. The mall and Superblock development failed to live up to expections; the mall management company went bankrupt in 1983. Spiegler's Department Store went out of business in the spring of 1992.
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- Subject
- ["Shopping malls.","City planning."]
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- Theme
- ["#Downtown Des Plaines"]
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- Company
- ["Erickson & Stevens, Inc.","First National Bank of Des Plaines","Spiegler's Department Store"]
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