Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants (2024)

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Shuling’s Role
Director of Photography

Production Company
WTTW

Director
Risé Sanders-Weir

Executive Producer
Anna Chadwick Gardner

Directors of Photography
Oral Berat User
Shuling Yong

Editor
Patty Kaniff

Associate Produer
Alicia Soller

In an age before online commerce and Amazon, the catalog was king – and two Chicago mail order giants were responsible for making goods and services accessible to the masses. Chicago Stories traces the histories of Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward and the fierce rivalry between the two bold innovators who founded them and forever changed the way we shop.