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Remembering David Lindley: A tribute to one of the greatest slide players and multi-instrumentalists of all time

Sideman and session player to Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and more, David Lindley leaves behind a formidable musical legacy

Guitar World

JCPenney goes back to department store roots to shake retail ‘road kill’ rap

Sometimes the relevance of a retailer is decided by people who don’t shop there. It’s a Wall Street vs. Main Street, high-income vs. mid-to-low-income kind of thing.

Tribune News Service

Rush plans 60,000-square-foot outpatient medical center on former Sears site

The $70 million center at North and Harlem avenues will have 90 exam rooms, providing everything from urgent and primary care to imaging and diagnostic services.

Chicago Sun-Times

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How to be an ace engineer: F2 and damper specialist Gavin Bickerton-Jones

Years of preparing his own karts and single-seater cars gave Gavin Bickerton-Jones plenty of the core skills needed to make a career from motorsport. But never one to rest on his laurels, Norfolk-based Bickerton-Jones developed a specialism in dampers that has made him one of the most in-demand engineers in…

Autosport

Editorial: Goodbye, Sears. Now Chicago needs to nurture its next great company

Holiday traditions come and go, but for many Chicagoans of a certain age, Christmas started when the “Wish Book” arrived in the mailbox from Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Chicago Tribune

Is Simons Canada’s Next Great Department Store?

As other large North American retailers falter and close, the Quebec-based company has thrived

The Walrus

Will Bed Bath & Beyond sink like Sears or rise like Best Buy?

The company has been on a rollercoaster of crises, including a meme-stock rise and crash. Its latest financial report comes Thursday.

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As ACC looks to address revenue gap, competing worldviews emerge on future of college sports

In the span of about a week, in cities separated by about 600 miles, two of the most powerful leaders in college athletics offered contrasting worldviews in this summer of massive change and uncertainty. One of them espoused the supposed values of the traditional collegiate sports model; the other embraced…

Tribune News Service

Thousands of homeless people in LA's old Sears building? Some in Boyle Heights say no way

LOS ANGELES — Bill Taormina had 17 minutes to convince the crowd in the auditorium of Boyle Heights Resurrection School to back his plan to turn their shuttered neighborhood Sears into a giant homeless services hub.

Los Angeles Times

More than 70 Sears stores to close across country

The Sears Hometown liquidation sales have begun and will vary in length.

Axios

Kmart nears extinction

Kmart’s decline has been slow but steady, brought about by years of falling sales, changes in shopping habits and the looming shadow of Walmart

Chicago Sun-Times

Once a retail giant, Kmart down to 3 stores after NJ closing

When the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, closes its doors on April 16, it will leave only three remaining U.S. locations for the former retail powerhouse

The Independent UK

Share the profits! Why US businesses must return to rewarding workers properly

The economy is booming and corporate profits are huge, but American wages still stagnate. History provides the answer

The Guardian - US

The last big Sears in Pennsylvania is closing: 'They've been dropping like flies'

The last large-format Sears department store in Pennsylvania, at the Willow Grove Park mall in the Philadelphia suburbs, will close its doors permanently, perhaps in about a month.

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Virginia's 1st female lt. gov. takes her seat in the Senate

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has taken her seat for the first day presiding over the Virginia Senate as the state’s first woman to serve as lieutenant governor and the first Black woman to hold statewide office

Fortune

Will Wal-Mart take over the world?

So long, Sears. Move over, K mart. This outback discounter is rising fast—and is No. 5 in Fortune's latest survey of America's most admired corporations.

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