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    A piano player, free gift wrap and coat check. In Chicago's suburbs, Von Maur is out to prove traditional department stores aren't dead.

    by Lauren Zumbach, Chicago Tribune Nov 11, 2019 4 minutes

    ORLAND PARK, Ill. - The first thing Griselda Mata noticed about Orland Square Mall's newest store was that it felt like a bit of a throwback.

    "It's like Nordstrom or Marshall Field's, or Carson's back in the day," said Mata, 49, of Burbank, Ill., strolling through the shoe department to the sound of live music from a pianist near the escalator.

    It was Mata's first visit to the new Von Maur store in Orland Park, the Davenport, Iowa-based retailers' fifth location in the Chicago area. She'd come to the mall to make a return at another retailer before deciding to check out the store, which replaced a shuttered Carson's.

    "I'm going to have to come

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