OMG! I totally forgot about downstairs in Peacock Alley...In 1983 I was featured in a shopping window ad for a tanning company/health club with an entire spread of pictures advertising the tanning beds and health club...yep, we called them "clubs" (the gyms) at that time. Wonderful, great memories of such an awesome time to have been alive!!
@moonchild-711 That’s awesome! I remember calling them clubs as well. Peacock Alley was such a cool feature! The 80’s were a great time to be alive! Wish I could go back! Thanks so much for sharing and watching!
@hueso5071 And this mall is still open. Many malls have closed yet this one is still going. I bet this mall was one if if not the best mall in Chicago back in the 90’s and 2000’s! Thanks for watching!
I grew up in Chrysler Village - Clearing neighborhood right by Midway Airport. This mall is rich with history and I pray management etc saves this mall
I lived in West Lawn from 1970 to 1979,then moved to Chicago Lawn. I went to school at Soutwest Community College,Now Daley and Ford City mall was a definite hang out between classes and drinks in Talley's Pub as well after school. I live near West in the Proviso area now and miss my old South Side. It used to be a safe community,not a gang filled turf. One could walk from Western Ave to Harlem on 63rd or anywhere South at 3 in the morning and be perfectly safe.That is not possible now.
@PC4USE1 Wow! Can’t believe what had happened to this area. It’s really sad. Surprised this mall is still open! Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
Unfortunately crime has plagued this mall. Fun fact, this mall has multiple lower levels that are unaccessable . Was once a military vehicle build facility thus the name Ford.
@gnieciag Yep, unfortunately there were 3 car break-ins and a car jacking while we were here. I’ve read the first lower level used to have a tunnel over to the adjacent shopping center. Hopefully this mall can rebound but doesn’t look likely. Thanks for watching!
Yea. They named it peacock alley and they had little business downstairs . One was the Alley from downtown Chicago. Use to be a great mall with Carson Pirie , Sears, and JCPenney.
@@gnieciagThe lower level hallway called Peacock Alley, used to connect between the lower level of this mall(which is now closed off), and up to where Sears used to operate. From 1st floor(ground level, the floor you see in this video), you have to walk across the parking lot to get over to where Sears used to operate.
I didn't realize since my last visit(2022 or 2023?), that the food court is down to just 1 place to eat left(Cajun Grill). When I last visited there were several places to eat, including Smokehouse and Subway.
Yes, I remember when "Peacock Alley" was thriving and featured a great variety of smaller stores. I used to go to Ford City mall from childhood into the early 1990's, and worked there briefly in the early 1980s. Back then, there were a few crimes, but not like more recent times.
A few years ago i went to the restroom at the food court. There was a guy shaving at one sink...there were about four sinks but none of them worked. I reported to a security guard that i wasn't able to wash my hands because there is only one sink working. I was shocked that i recently went in there and there is still only that one sink working, I read on Wikipedia that the company who bought the mall buys a lot of dead malls just for the real-estate to sell it for other uses in the future, Very sad that companies do this.
@willyjoerockhead That 1 sink was the only one working working when I was there too. The big corporations are doing the same thing with these malls as Eddie Lampert has done to Kmart and Sears unfortunately. Selling off the property to make a large profit. It’s definitely a sad situation.
This is so sad. I used to hang out here - with family and by myself - in the 90s and 2000s. The arcade, Tilt, was my favorite place to go to on weekends. I'd go school shopping with my mom and grandmother here at JCPenney. And I'd used the Connection to travel to the other side of the mall where Sears was. So sad to see it so empty.
@TheKelsmommy Sounds like this was a great mall at one time! So many memories! The Connection was a really cool feature they shouldn’t have done away with. It really is sad what has happened to this place. Thanks so much for watching and sharing your memories of this mall!
This was the best mall to go to in the nineties. Got my furst comic book from MoonDogs that was tucked away in the lower level. Damn shame to see it like this.
@terrancebragg327 It’s definitely sad to see what has happened to this mall. The lower level was a nice feature they should have never done away with. Wish I could have seen it. Thanks for sharing your memories and watching!
This was the first indoor mall I ever went to as a kid in the 60s. Went with my mom and grandma. It had a basement also back then and a Woolworth store. Also went to the movies there. Very sad to see it in such a decline and a dead mall. I probably haven’t been there since the early to mid nineties. Thanks for the nice video. It brought back good memories.
@cynthiarose7534 Thanks for sharing! I guess there was a tunnel in the basement that connected the mall to the adjacent shopping center. Thank you so much for watching!
I use to go there allot during the Early to mid 2000's they closed down the basement around the late 90's they still had a lot of stores back then but ever since Carson Closed back in 2018 things went really down hill. The Mall started to become ghetto after 2010 a lot fights broke out and I remember I riot that happened back in 2012.
@LegoDarkknight-c3k Wow! It’s a shame what has become of this mall and many others in this country. We’ve lost so many great malls. This mall is still surviving for now at least
@@aMuncieChannel I actually live close to this mall it's a 5 min drive and back then we use to go here a lot and Chicago Ridge mall. But since Carson Closed and a lot of other places did we decided to go to Chicago ridge but now a days we really don't go to malls anymore. I use to work at Water Tower place in downtown Chicago and the mall itself is dead when it comes to the stores a lot of places closed down and I heard now the food court closed wondering when both of these places will close. I doubt it can stay open in the condition it is right now
You know what's crazy? I live in Chicago and I forgot this mall existed and was still open! I remember my first time there as a kid. I went with my aunt, it was packed and busy! I remember, I got lost, was crying and went to the information desk. Eventually, my aunt came and found me. After that, I remember going countless times, spent my whole teenager years there. The last time I went to Ford City Mall was once again with my aunt and I was 26 at the time. I remember trying to get a job at the Kay Jewelers. I'm now 39 and seeing this footage saddens me and brings back memories. It's been a long time since I've been, like I said I forgot it existed! omg!
I used to to go shopping every weekend at ford city it was so alive so packed and full of people I went like a month ago cuz I forgot ford was open and this time it was just dead…….
@grayIn Thanks for sharing! Similar stories for me as well at Northland Mall in Columbus, OH although it did close and was demolished. Thanks so much for watching!
I used to hang out here in the 70s. Downstairs was peacock alley and they had a Woolworth cafe in the middle of the mall on the main floor the area there is getting very bad not like it used to be too bad Stores get tired of being robbed
@johnr2132 Wish I could have seen this mall in its heyday. Peacock Alley was a great feature! There were 3 car break-ins and a carjacking while I was there on a Sunday morning. You’re right, stores and people get tired of being robbed. Thanks so much for watching and sharing!
Ford City is what you get when you let your mall get a bad rep fro, years of thugs bumming around the mall and an overall ghetto vibe, and the mall next in line to go through this same fate is North Riverside.
@supergremlintripleseven6790 I couldn’t agree with you more. Haven’t been to North Riverside yet. It’s sad and a shame what has happened to Ford City. Thanks so much for watching!
I would add that this virus of usual suspects ruining what was good when they first had EVERGREEN PLAZA MALL and when that went to H3LL, they all sucked the life out of Ford City Mall next. It took 25 years for it to happen. Both are ghetto dumps unfortunately.
I was in grade school when this mall opened as the first major indoor mall outside of Evergreen Park on the SW side of Chicagoland. Saw many movies too here when the theaters were on the Cicero Avenue side of the mall separate from the main building. Then when I had kids brought them here with my dad their grandfather every Friday night it was special then. After the first indoor shooting incident, though, never came back.
@JohnArnis Miss those days when are childhood malls were still around. Great story except for the indoor shooting incident. It’s sad to see what has become of this mall. Sounds like it used to be a great mall. Thanks for watching!
@PrettyBrownEyes91 This mall reminds me a lot of my childhood mall in Columbus, OH although it closed in 2002. Sad what has happened to so many malls around the country. Thanks for sharing your memories of this mall and thanks for watching!
I was there the first day it opened. Rode my bike. Used to bowl there, and take dates to the show. Don't know how many times I had to sit through that piece of crap movie The Way We Were. John's Garage was a pretty good eatery. Lots of my teen years were spent there. Good memories. Been going downhill since the 90's. after the sideways hat people moved in.
@user-iu5vf6us4q Thanks for sharing your memories of this mall. Sounds about the same as me at my old mall in Columbus, OH. It’s sad what has happened to this place. Thanks for watching!
It use to be a nice mall but people just stopped going to malls especially since Major department stores started closing. Strip malls started popping up and a lot of people started shopping at discount stores. Now that target and Walmart sells clothes and it’s a bunch of fast fashion stores to buy cheap clothes that’s what helped get rid of malls.
@PrettyBrownEyes91 You’re absolutely correct! It’s really a sad situation for many malls nowadays unfortunately. Amazon and online shopping is another killer of these places. I would still like to see a product or try it on before purchasing something online. Never know how it’s going to fit or actually look.
Grew up going to this mall, but while Sitting in the food court about a year ago waiting for my family to get out the wash room, while sitting in the benches a roach came out the seat next me to.
Ford City looks nothing like I remember it. Evergreen Plaza was my main mall but when we'd go to Scottsdale back in the day we always made a stop at Ford City. Man, that place was always full of people. Now it looks beyond dead.
The usual suspects had EVERGREEN PARK PLAZA Mall but STILL managed to k1LL both Ford and Evergreen Park Plaza malls in a matter of 25 years. Pathetic and sad.
That’s the reason I don’t shop there cause it’s too much violence going on around here in the city of Chicago in here. In this mall I remember I was 9 years old. I used to want to go to the store mall I used to have a toy store KB kids toys when I was 13 I used to have a arcade but it damn they’re closed it & and by the time when I was 16 it us to be GameStop - EB games and I used to have footlocker so I can get some shoes ford city is now a dead end
@31GRoom KB Toys is still a toy store. They left the Toys letters up inside the entrance and just removed KB from it. Sounds like this was an impressive mall at one point! It’s a shame what has happened to it. Thanks so much for sharing and watching!
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This video actually makes it look brighter and livelier than it really is. I walk through there most Sunday afternoons, and it's a lot more grimy and seedy and depressing in person. Literally darker, too. Such a dead place!
@NYKensington You’re right! It is darker than this and I was surprised to see as many people as we did. I was there on a Sunday afternoon so we might have seen each other. Sad what has happened to this place. Thanks so much for watching!
@CarnivalCruiseAddicts And dangerous we found out before we left. 3 cars were broken into, a robbery and a car jacking all happened in the parking lot as we were there. Found out from a police officer as we were leaving. Thanks for watching!
So sad. This mall was awesome in 80s so was evergreen pk. And that went down hill to the dump just like ford city.. now Orland pk & Chicago ridge is struggling with ass showing wannabe thugs scaring people away.
@chevycamaro7545 It’s really sad what has happened to this mall and others in and around Chicago. Same thing has happened to the malls here in Columbus, OH. People don’t want to shop scared! Thanks for watching!
@michaelreed4744 Absolutely! That and I believe the U.S. was over-malled there for a while. A lot of small towns had malls which really couldn’t support them and many larger cities had too many malls trying to compete with one another. Thanks so much for watching!
my cousin lives outside chicago and she says evrybody KNOWS why this mall is avoided. Lets say crime, theft, robbery and demographics that attract same.
@chaddallesandro2057 I agree with your cousin. Security at the mall informed us there were 3 car break-ins and a robbery at gun point in the parking lot as we were leaving. Inside the mall however everyone was nice and friendly. Glad our car wasn’t broken into. Thanks for watching!
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OMG! I totally forgot about downstairs in Peacock Alley...In 1983 I was featured in a shopping window ad for a tanning company/health club with an entire spread of pictures advertising the tanning beds and health club...yep, we called them "clubs" (the gyms) at that time. Wonderful, great memories of such an awesome time to have been alive!!
@moonchild-711 That’s awesome! I remember calling them clubs as well. Peacock Alley was such a cool feature! The 80’s were a great time to be alive! Wish I could go back! Thanks so much for sharing and watching!
I remember when this mall was full of people in the 90s and 2000s.
@hueso5071 And this mall is still open. Many malls have closed yet this one is still going. I bet this mall was one if if not the best mall in Chicago back in the 90’s and 2000’s! Thanks for watching!
Yes it was until a certain color became the dominant people there and ruined it
@@brianc4037 I agree
@@brianc4037 agree. THEY had EVERGREEN PARK PLAZA Mall but STILL managed to k1LL both Ford and Evergreen Park Plaza malls in a matter of 25 years.
I grew up in Chrysler Village - Clearing neighborhood right by Midway Airport. This mall is rich with history and I pray management etc saves this mall
@reneeleegreco1603 The mall and the site is definitely historic! I hope it makes a comeback along with the neighborhood. Thanks for watching!
I lived in West Lawn from 1970 to 1979,then moved to Chicago Lawn. I went to school at Soutwest Community College,Now Daley and Ford City mall was a definite hang out between classes and drinks in Talley's Pub as well after school. I live near West in the Proviso area now and miss my old South Side. It used to be a safe community,not a gang filled turf. One could walk from Western Ave to Harlem on 63rd or anywhere South at 3 in the morning and be perfectly safe.That is not possible now.
@PC4USE1 Wow! Can’t believe what had happened to this area. It’s really sad. Surprised this mall is still open! Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching!
Unfortunately crime has plagued this mall. Fun fact, this mall has multiple lower levels that are unaccessable . Was once a military vehicle build facility thus the name Ford.
@gnieciag Yep, unfortunately there were 3 car break-ins and a car jacking while we were here. I’ve read the first lower level used to have a tunnel over to the adjacent shopping center. Hopefully this mall can rebound but doesn’t look likely. Thanks for watching!
Yea. They named it peacock alley and they had little business downstairs . One was the Alley from downtown Chicago. Use to be a great mall with Carson Pirie , Sears, and JCPenney.
@@gnieciagThe lower level hallway called Peacock Alley, used to connect between the lower level of this mall(which is now closed off), and up to where Sears used to operate. From 1st floor(ground level, the floor you see in this video), you have to walk across the parking lot to get over to where Sears used to operate.
I didn't realize since my last visit(2022 or 2023?), that the food court is down to just 1 place to eat left(Cajun Grill). When I last visited there were several places to eat, including Smokehouse and Subway.
Yes, I remember when "Peacock Alley" was thriving and featured a great variety of smaller stores. I used to go to Ford City mall from childhood into the early 1990's, and worked there briefly in the early 1980s. Back then, there were a few crimes, but not like more recent times.
A few years ago i went to the restroom at the food court. There was a guy shaving at one sink...there were about four sinks but none of them worked. I reported to a security guard that i wasn't able to wash my hands because there is only one sink working. I was shocked that i recently went in there and there is still only that one sink working, I read on Wikipedia that the company who bought the mall buys a lot of dead malls just for the real-estate to sell it for other uses in the future, Very sad that companies do this.
@willyjoerockhead That 1 sink was the only one working working when I was there too. The big corporations are doing the same thing with these malls as Eddie Lampert has done to Kmart and Sears unfortunately. Selling off the property to make a large profit. It’s definitely a sad situation.
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Wow, sad to see this downfall. Used to hang out there frequently back in the '90s when it was awesome and full of life.
@scanman975 Sad to see what has happened to this mall. I bet it was a great mall at one time! Thanks so much for watching!
This is so sad. I used to hang out here - with family and by myself - in the 90s and 2000s. The arcade, Tilt, was my favorite place to go to on weekends. I'd go school shopping with my mom and grandmother here at JCPenney. And I'd used the Connection to travel to the other side of the mall where Sears was. So sad to see it so empty.
@TheKelsmommy Sounds like this was a great mall at one time! So many memories! The Connection was a really cool feature they shouldn’t have done away with. It really is sad what has happened to this place. Thanks so much for watching and sharing your memories of this mall!
This was the best mall to go to in the nineties. Got my furst comic book from MoonDogs that was tucked away in the lower level. Damn shame to see it like this.
@terrancebragg327 It’s definitely sad to see what has happened to this mall. The lower level was a nice feature they should have never done away with. Wish I could have seen it. Thanks for sharing your memories and watching!
Such a large and beautiful mall, I really like this place, so luxurious
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This was the first indoor mall I ever went to as a kid in the 60s. Went with my mom and grandma. It had a basement also back then and a Woolworth store. Also went to the movies there. Very sad to see it in such a decline and a dead mall. I probably haven’t been there since the early to mid nineties. Thanks for the nice video. It brought back good memories.
@cynthiarose7534 Thanks for sharing! I guess there was a tunnel in the basement that connected the mall to the adjacent shopping center. Thank you so much for watching!
I use to go there allot during the Early to mid 2000's they closed down the basement around the late 90's they still had a lot of stores back then but ever since Carson Closed back in 2018 things went really down hill. The Mall started to become ghetto after 2010 a lot fights broke out and I remember I riot that happened back in 2012.
@LegoDarkknight-c3k Wow! It’s a shame what has become of this mall and many others in this country. We’ve lost so many great malls. This mall is still surviving for now at least
@@aMuncieChannel I actually live close to this mall it's a 5 min drive and back then we use to go here a lot and Chicago Ridge mall. But since Carson Closed and a lot of other places did we decided to go to Chicago ridge but now a days we really don't go to malls anymore.
I use to work at Water Tower place in downtown Chicago and the mall itself is dead when it comes to the stores a lot of places closed down and I heard now the food court closed wondering when both of these places will close. I doubt it can stay open in the condition it is right now
@LegoDarkknight-c3k I don’t see it staying open much longer either. Next time I’m in Chicago I’ll have to visit Water Tower Mall.
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@AasanZindagi It really is although struggling to survive unfortunately. Thanks so much for watching my friend!
MetroPCS in the food court is insane
@davidquiroz1608 I thought that was strange as well. Really weird! Thanks for watching!
Bay Park Square in Green Bay, Wisconsin has The Picture People photo studio in their food court...
I stopped visiting Ford City mall after Smokehouse went out of bussiness. Those burgers were delicious! 🍔💔
@KevinBelmontLuna Sounds like a great place! I hate it when places I like go out of business. Thanks for watching!
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@Royalluxury491 I do too! It’s an interesting place! Thanks so much for watching my friend!
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You know what's crazy? I live in Chicago and I forgot this mall existed and was still open! I remember my first time there as a kid. I went with my aunt, it was packed and busy! I remember, I got lost, was crying and went to the information desk. Eventually, my aunt came and found me. After that, I remember going countless times, spent my whole teenager years there. The last time I went to Ford City Mall was once again with my aunt and I was 26 at the time. I remember trying to get a job at the Kay Jewelers. I'm now 39 and seeing this footage saddens me and brings back memories. It's been a long time since I've been, like I said I forgot it existed! omg!
I used to to go shopping every weekend at ford city it was so alive so packed and full of people I went like a month ago cuz I forgot ford was open and this time it was just dead…….
@grayIn Thanks for sharing! Similar stories for me as well at Northland Mall in Columbus, OH although it did close and was demolished. Thanks so much for watching!
@leatcravolas-s7k It definitely looks like it was a great mall not that long ago. Thanks for watching!
@@aMuncieChannel it used to be a great mall great for family shopping and spending free time but now ehhh you seen it’s pretty much a ghost town now
The shopping center is very big, clean, luxurious and neat. However, there are still few visitors.
@Maman738 Yes it is! Thank you very much for watching my friend!
I used to hang out here in the 70s. Downstairs was peacock alley and they had a Woolworth cafe in the middle of the mall on the main floor the area there is getting very bad not like it used to be too bad
Stores get tired of being robbed
@johnr2132 Wish I could have seen this mall in its heyday. Peacock Alley was a great feature! There were 3 car break-ins and a carjacking while I was there on a Sunday morning. You’re right, stores and people get tired of being robbed. Thanks so much for watching and sharing!
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Ford City is what you get when you let your mall get a bad rep fro, years of thugs bumming around the mall and an overall ghetto vibe, and the mall next in line to go through this same fate is North Riverside.
@supergremlintripleseven6790 I couldn’t agree with you more. Haven’t been to North Riverside yet. It’s sad and a shame what has happened to Ford City. Thanks so much for watching!
River Oaks Mall, too
I would add that this virus of usual suspects ruining what was good when they first had EVERGREEN PLAZA MALL and when that went to H3LL, they all sucked the life out of Ford City Mall next. It took 25 years for it to happen. Both are ghetto dumps unfortunately.
I was in grade school when this mall opened as the first major indoor mall outside of Evergreen Park on the SW side of Chicagoland. Saw many movies too here when the theaters were on the Cicero Avenue side of the mall separate from the main building. Then when I had kids brought them here with my dad their grandfather every Friday night it was special then. After the first indoor shooting incident, though, never came back.
@JohnArnis Miss those days when are childhood malls were still around. Great story except for the indoor shooting incident. It’s sad to see what has become of this mall. Sounds like it used to be a great mall. Thanks for watching!
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@sharoncruisingscene It really is although it’s unfortunately dying. Thanks for watching!
Really sad. Ford city used to be the place to go. I used to bowl there in the eighties. Well with new mayor u will see more stuff go away.
@markpolacek7840 It’s really sad. Hopefully this mall can survive somehow. Thanks for watching!
Ford city has been dying for over a decade. New mayor has nothing to do with it.
This and evergreen use to be the spot for everything, I got my school jacket from there and my last pair of skates from the skateboard shop.
@PrettyBrownEyes91 This mall reminds me a lot of my childhood mall in Columbus, OH although it closed in 2002. Sad what has happened to so many malls around the country. Thanks for sharing your memories of this mall and thanks for watching!
Interesting place
@nationalparksprincess3216 It really is! Thanks so much for watching!
Do RiverOaks in Calumet City, it's even worse
@Tdogmedia I will have to check it out next time I’m in Chicago. Thanks for the info and for watching!
I was there the first day it opened. Rode my bike. Used to bowl there, and take dates to the show. Don't know how many times I had to sit through that piece of crap movie The Way We Were. John's Garage was a pretty good eatery. Lots of my teen years were spent there. Good memories.
Been going downhill since the 90's. after the sideways hat people moved in.
@user-iu5vf6us4q Thanks for sharing your memories of this mall. Sounds about the same as me at my old mall in Columbus, OH. It’s sad what has happened to this place. Thanks for watching!
It use to be a nice mall but people just stopped going to malls especially since Major department stores started closing. Strip malls started popping up and a lot of people started shopping at discount stores. Now that target and Walmart sells clothes and it’s a bunch of fast fashion stores to buy cheap clothes that’s what helped get rid of malls.
@PrettyBrownEyes91 You’re absolutely correct! It’s really a sad situation for many malls nowadays unfortunately. Amazon and online shopping is another killer of these places. I would still like to see a product or try it on before purchasing something online. Never know how it’s going to fit or actually look.
Thanks for pointing that out and not using the cop-out excuse of crime for the mall declining.
@728huey I call it how I see it! Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t believe I am. Thanks so much for watching!
It’s unfortunate that gang activity has taken down so many Chicago area Malls.
@1960sRICH It really is! Happened here in Columbus, OH as well to a few of our malls.
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I live a few block away from this mall. I don’t know how the hell it’s still open people barely go there. Would be great too use for a movie.
@pierrechaidez6516 I don’t know how it’s still open either. That would be a great idea! Thanks so much for watching!
Northfield Mall in Bradley, IL. Now that mall is really dead..
@Laine2539 I will have to visit that mall sometime. Thanks for the info and thanks for watching!
Grew up going to this mall, but while Sitting in the food court about a year ago waiting for my family to get out the wash room, while sitting in the benches a roach came out the seat next me to.
@user-en8hj5et9h Oh wow! Didn’t see any roaches but there were no places open in the food court. Thanks so much for watching!
Ford City looks nothing like I remember it. Evergreen Plaza was my main mall but when we'd go to Scottsdale back in the day we always made a stop at Ford City. Man, that place was always full of people. Now it looks beyond dead.
@maryyung1994 It’s sad what has happened to this mall. At least it’s still open though, for now. Is Evergreen Plaza still open? Thanks for watching!
@@aMuncieChannel The old Evergreen Plaza was torn down. It's now more of an outdoor type mall I think.
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@ChappysTikiBar It really was! Sad what had become of this mall. Thanks for watching Chappy!
The usual suspects had EVERGREEN PARK PLAZA Mall but STILL managed to k1LL both Ford and Evergreen Park Plaza malls in a matter of 25 years. Pathetic and sad.
@0hffs It really is sad! Same thing happened here in Columbus, OH with 4 of our malls and a few smaller suburb malls. Thanks for watching!
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@luisalifestyleandtravel Thanks so much! I really appreciate you watching! It’s sad what has become of a majority of malls
That’s the reason I don’t shop there cause it’s too much violence going on around here in the city of Chicago in here. In this mall I remember I was 9 years old. I used to want to go to the store mall I used to have a toy store KB kids toys when I was 13 I used to have a arcade but it damn they’re closed it & and by the time when I was 16 it us to be GameStop - EB games and I used to have footlocker so I can get some shoes ford city is now a dead end
@31GRoom KB Toys is still a toy store. They left the Toys letters up inside the entrance and just removed KB from it. Sounds like this was an impressive mall at one point! It’s a shame what has happened to it. Thanks so much for sharing and watching!
Nothing but a shell of itself, sad indeed.
@airofmystery14 It’s sad what’s happened to this mall and many other malls. Thanks for watching!
POC ruined it.
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@soniaprovido1182 Thank you very much! I really appreciate it my friend!
Veryverysad
@davyhoffwurst1824 It really is. Hopefully this mall can survive. Thanks so much for watching!
Reason, people spending their money on drugs.
@sergeeternal3778 Unfortunately that’s a possible reason
This video actually makes it look brighter and livelier than it really is. I walk through there most Sunday afternoons, and it's a lot more grimy and seedy and depressing in person. Literally darker, too. Such a dead place!
@NYKensington You’re right! It is darker than this and I was surprised to see as many people as we did. I was there on a Sunday afternoon so we might have seen each other. Sad what has happened to this place. Thanks so much for watching!
Yeah, that's pretty dead!
@CarnivalCruiseAddicts And dangerous we found out before we left. 3 cars were broken into, a robbery and a car jacking all happened in the parking lot as we were there. Found out from a police officer as we were leaving. Thanks for watching!
@@aMuncieChannel whoa!
@CarnivalCruiseAddicts Needless to say I will not be back to this mall!
Sooo sad
@mcdpoor It really is. The woman working at the toy store said it was a thriving mall 5 years ago. Thanks for watching!
So sad. This mall was awesome in 80s so was evergreen pk. And that went down hill to the dump just like ford city.. now Orland pk & Chicago ridge is struggling with ass showing wannabe thugs scaring people away.
@chevycamaro7545 It’s really sad what has happened to this mall and others in and around Chicago. Same thing has happened to the malls here in Columbus, OH. People don’t want to shop scared! Thanks for watching!
Hello. Do you think that the rise of online shopping, and the status of the economy contribute to the decline of malls in the US?
@michaelreed4744 Absolutely! That and I believe the U.S. was over-malled there for a while. A lot of small towns had malls which really couldn’t support them and many larger cities had too many malls trying to compete with one another. Thanks so much for watching!
I done think this is ford city yo
@jjooeegg1 It is and unfortunately it isn’t doing too well. Hopefully it can make recovery because it is a nice mall
Yeah I have to say Chicago in general is not a good place to be in or live in
The outskirts of Chicago are pretty nice though like the Schaumburg area. Thanks for watching!
What part of Chicago are you from?
@saulgood8229 I’m not from Chicago. Ohio. I’ve been visiting Chicago frequently since I was a kid.
Chicago is just fine.
I agree! It could be a lot worse
do you see any ghost in your videos from these places? it would be so cool thanks. love the music too.
@cruisenuts2846 No ghosts as of yet but that would definitely add to the spooky feeling! Thanks so much for watching!
my cousin lives outside chicago and she says evrybody KNOWS why this mall is avoided. Lets say crime, theft, robbery and demographics that attract same.
@chaddallesandro2057 I agree with your cousin. Security at the mall informed us there were 3 car break-ins and a robbery at gun point in the parking lot as we were leaving. Inside the mall however everyone was nice and friendly. Glad our car wasn’t broken into. Thanks for watching!