Macy's mucks it up.

Field's green fades to red | Chicago Tribune

After surviving the Chicago Fire, the Great Depression, the Great Chicago Flood and five separate owners, Marshall Field's disappears Saturday from the Chicago landscape and officially becomes Macy's.

It's a makeover that Macy's owner says must happen in order to revive the department store as a shopping destination.

Maybe it's just me but it's difficult to think of any more destinationary place on State Street (that great street) than Marshall Field's, and anybody who's lived in Chicago and has never been to Marshall Field's at Christmas time or said "meet you under the clock" hasn't lived in Chicago. And that's an end to that.