In its heyday, Kmart operated more than 2,300 stores across the country. On Saturday, there will be just three remaining. Many of the former Kmart sites in the North, West and Northwest suburbs have been redeveloped as other retailers, as a police station and even as a mass vaccination site. But several others await new uses.
Burlington is relocating from the Stratford Square Mall to a 27,726-square-foot lease at Stratford Crossing shopping center, another store joining a problematic trend for the mall.