Sears closing its last Chicago store

CHICAGO – Sears is closing its only remaining store in Chicago.

Employees at the store at Six Corners in the Old Irving Park neighborhood were told of the closure Thursday morning, spokesman Howard Riefs said in an email. The store, at the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue, Cicero Avenue and Irving Park Road, will close in mid-July after a liquidation sale set to begin April 27. The Sears Auto Center will close in mid-May.

The store was one of 265 properties sold to Seritage Growth Properties in a 2015 sale-leaseback deal.

“For more than 120 years, Sears has called Illinois home and that is not changing,” Riefs said. “Although we are disappointed by this last store closure in Chicago, by no means does this change our commitment to our customers and presence to Chicago’s residents.”

Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. still has about 150 employees at its office in downtown Chicago. The company still operates stores in the six Chicago suburbs: North Riverside, Niles, Chicago Ridge, Vernon Hills, Schaumburg and Bloomingdale.

The company declined to say how many employees work at the Six Corners store, which opened in 1938.