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Yorktown Center
Shopping mall in Lombard, Illinois / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yorktown Center is a shopping mall located in the village of Lombard, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The mall features JCPenney, Von Maur in addition to an 18-screen dine-in AMC Theatres.
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Location | Lombard, Illinois, United States |
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Coordinates | 41°50′23″N 88°0′26″W |
Address | 203 Yorktown Center |
Opening date | October 10, 1968; 55 years ago (October 10, 1968) |
Management | Pacific Retail |
Owner | Pacific Retail Capital Partners |
Architect | Victor Gruen and Sidney H. Morris |
No. of stores and services | 189 |
No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
Total retail floor area | 1,500,000 square feet (139,354.6 m2) |
No. of floors | 2 (3 in Von Maur and former Carson's) |
Public transit access | ![]() |
Website | yorktowncenter |
At the time of its 1968 opening, the 1,300,000-square-foot (120,000 m2) Yorktown Center ranked as the largest shopping center in America.[1] The mall was originally a four-anchor indoor mall - three-story Carson Pirie Scott and Wieboldt's anchor department stores faced each other across a central courtyard, while wings for two-story JCPenney and Montgomery Ward anchor department stores stretched northward and southward, respectively, from the center courtyard. North of the mall proper, a strip mall dubbed the "Convenience Center" was constructed. This was originally anchored by a Grand Union supermarket. Other perimeter buildings included auto centers for the JCPenney and Montgomery Ward anchors, a General Cinema movie theater, and two restaurants.
One unusual feature is the Boeger-Brinkman Cemetery on the southern end of the parking lot, along Butterfield Road. The cemetery was part of a family's farmland that was sold to develop Yorktown Center.[2] A small section of the cemetery remains while others were moved for the construction of the shopping center. Since 2020, another new feature of the mall is that it is now considered the first dog-friendly mall in the entire state of Illinois.