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| Company type | Department store |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1983, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Defunct | 1988 |
| Fate | Converted or Sold to Kohl's |
| Headquarters | Bannockburn, Illinois, USA |
Area served | Chicago metropolitan area, Detroit, Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Twin Cities, Minnesota |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, home electronics, small appliances, housewares |
| Parent | Federated Department Stores |
MainStreet was a department store chain based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The chain was launched in November 1983 by Federated Department Stores (now known as Macy's, Inc.).[1] Throughout the 1980s, the chain expanded to twenty-nine stores in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Minnesota. By 1988, MainStreet was sold to the Wisconsin-based chain Kohl's, which converted most MainStreet locations to Kohl's that year.
- ^ Federated to add specialty div. and fine-tune non-department stores, Discount Store News, July 9, 1984. Archived September 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine