Gurnee Mills

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Gurnee Mills at sunset.
Gurnee Mills at sunset.

Gurnee Mills is an indoor outlet mall, located in Gurnee, Illinois about halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is a single-level Z-shaped mall. At 1.8 million square feet of gross leasable area, it is the fourth largest mall in Illinois.[1][2] It opened on August 8, 1991 as the fourth mall built by the now-defunct Mills Corporation.[3]

Theme park Six Flags Great America is located near the mall, and both receive tourist and tour bus traffic.[citation needed]

Until its death in 2006, Serpent Safari, a reptile zoo offering guided tours of reptiles, housed the heaviest living captive Burmese Python, which weighed 403 pounds. The python held the title in the Guinness Book of World Records for 9 years.[citation needed]

Throughout the mall, there are several sets of TVs hanging from the ceiling known as "Mills TV", showing video loops of music videos and advertisements.

The mall is the last mall the Mills Corporation built the mall linear (Potomac, Franklin, and Sawgrass) and the last with 2 food courts, (Franklin and Sawgrass are others).

[edit] Anchor stores

Gurnee Mills features several anchor stores, including: Bass Pro Shops, Bed Bath & Beyond, Burlington Coat Factory, Circuit City, H&M, JCPenney Outlet, Kohl's, Marshalls/HomeGoods, Off 5th, Sears Grand, Sports Authority, TJ Maxx, Value City and VF Factory Outlet.

Former anchor stores include: SYMS (now VF Factory), Filene's Basement, Lord & Taylor Clearance Center, Phar-Mor, Sears Appliance Outlet, Spiegel (now Kohl's), Computer City (now Circuit City), and Waccamaw Pottery (now Sears Grand).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mills Limited Partnership, 10-K (2005-03-31).
  2. ^ Top 10 Largest Malls in Illinois. Retrieved on 2007-06-12.
  3. ^ Village of Gurnee / Keeping Posted Newsletter (1991-07).

[edit] External links

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