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From its crowd-pleasing holiday windows to its Walnut Room restaurant, Marshall Field's has been a fixture in Chicago for more than 150 years. But next year the storied name will disappear, as Federated Department Stores Inc., which acquired Marshall Field's in February 2005, will rename it Macy's sometime this year.
Chicago area residents are used to being the "second city" to New York, but many of them consider it the ultimate insult that the name of their most famous department store is being replaced by the name of the first city's most famous store.
When the name change was announced in September, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley said that accepting change is necessary if you don't want to live in the past. Not everyone sees it that way, however.
"This is a real sore spot among Chicagoans," said Jonathan Fine...