Some Downers Grove residents think the village has cornered the market on a piece of Americana: the Sears do-it-yourself home. Those villagers want to forever link Downers Grove with Sears Roebuck and ...

Rosemary Thornton plans to ride the side streets along Warwick Boulevard today, looking for houses constructed in the 1920s. In Newport News, she expects to find some of the popular kit-built houses ...

The do-it-yourself, modest tiny home boom is gaining popularity in an era of shocking rent increases and low housing inventory — and we may have America's former largest retailer, Sears, to thank for ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...

A home in McCandless that was ordered from a Sears catalog in 1922 is now on the market. The house at 8828 Memorial Drive was one of the many home kits sold in the United States through the mail-order ...

Once upon a time, you could purchase a home for less than $5,000. The Barrington. The Lexington. The Sheridan. The Hazelton. The Malden. From the early 1900s until 1942, Sears, Roebuck and Co., more ...

Onetime retail giant Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week. Here’s a look back at a story from 2017 about how the kit homes it sold and shipped are still valued today. (October 22 ...

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FALL RIVER — Before there was Amazon Prime, there was the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog. The retail giant's catalog, printed from 1892 to 1993, featured any product an American consumer could ever need ...

Thanks to the Internet, you can buy just about anything online and have it shipped to you in a few days or less. The process is reminiscent of the early 1900s, when people turned to mail-order ...