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What Should Go Here? Openings at Market Place of Oak Lawn

With a Fairplay Foods taking over the old Dominick's space, other store fronts and freestanding parcels at 87th Street and Cicero Avenue which could stand some improvement.

Time to turn our attention to one of the village’s most notorious retail eyesores, the Market Place of Oak Lawn.

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Sandwiched between 87th and 89th Streets along Cicero Avenue, the Market Place was once home to a bustling and a Korvette Department Store back in the day. The shopping center is most famous for the tornado that loomed up behind it in 1967, captured in resident

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at the end of the summer, which we’re all happy about., , Five Star Furniture and a are prominent anchors, as well as several smaller storefronts, including a , and pet shop.

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Three smaller spaces ranging in size from 3,000 to 3,750 square feet are available for leasing, and a free-standing parcel or “pad” that’s just waiting for something to be built on it. (There was a fence around the pad when we visited.) Robin Realty & Management Co. is the leasing agent.

So tell us, what should go here? A clothing store? Electronics shop? Restaurant or bar? How else would you improve this prime retail location? Tell us in the comments?

 

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