Marshall Fields - Top Upscale Department Stores - Department Store Shopping - Retail Shopping

When shopping, there's all types of department stores to shop at. We have the Upscale stores where you need to make sure to have plenty of money, Mid-scale, still have some money, but not as much, mid-range stores are our everyday people stores, discount stores where you can probably buy twice as much for the same money spent at an upscale store. Off-Price Retailer stores are one in their own!

Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Company) was an iconic Chicago, Illinois, department store that grew to become a major chain before being acquired by Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores on August 30, 2005.

The former flagship Marshall Field and Company Building location on State Street in The Loop of downtown Chicago was officially renamed Macy's on State Street on September 9, 2006, and is now one of three national Macy's flagship stores � one of two within the company's Macy's East retail division alongside its New York store at Herald Square. Initially, the State Street store was the lead store of the Macy's North division, immediately following the merger.

Marshall Field & Company traces its antecedents to a dry goods store opened at 137 Lake Street in Chicago in 1852 by Potter Palmer, eponymously named P. Palmer & Co.. Four years later, in 1856, 21-year-old Marshall Field moved to Chicago from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, finding work at the city's then largest dry goods firm, Cooley, Wadsworth & Co. Just prior to the Civil War, in 1860, Field and bookkeeper Levi Leiter became junior partners in the firm, then known as Cooley, Farwell & Co. In 1864 the firm, then led by senior partner John V. Farwell, was renamed Farwell, Field & Co. only for Field and Leiter to soon withdraw from the partnership when presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.