May Department Stores, Mary Livingstone[?] was working as a lingerie salesgirl here when she met her future husband Jack Benny. Later, the department store was used as a setting in his radio and television shows.
Sears & Roebuck[?], later Sears[?], its first mail order catalogs caused prices to drop all over the country, leading to their being called "the great price maker"
... The total area is 1.92% water.
Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 53,364 people, 21,348 households, and 13,363 families residing in the city. The ...