is an upscale super-regional
Shopping Center located near
Interstate 88 in
Oak Brook ,
Illinois . It was originally opened in
1962 and has become the largest open-air center in the
United States . Managed and co-owned by
General Growth Properties , it is the second largest shopping center in the
Chicago area, by
Gross Leasable Area .
1 Current anchor stores include
Bloomingdale's Home ,
Lord & Taylor ,
Macy's ,
Neiman Marcus ,
Nordstrom and
Sears .
Oakbrook Center, originally to be named Oakbrook Terrace (but the name was changed when a town near the mall took that name), opened in
1962 with Sears and
Marshall Field's , as well as a
Jewel Food Store .
Bonwit Teller was latter added, as was
Lord & Taylor in
1973 on the south side.
I. Magnin ,
Saks Fifth Avenue , and
Neiman Marcus joined the center in a 1981-1982 expansion that doubled the physical size of the center with a new southeast court.
In
1987 , a four-screen movie theater (which closed in 2001) was added near Saks Fifth Avenue. Bonwit Teller closed their location in 1990, while I. Magnin was shuttered in January
1991 , with its former site subdivided in 1994 for specialty stores, including
Eddie Bauer and
Tiffany & Company . In 1991 a new two-story, open-air addition opened northeast of Sears. Built on top of a parking garage it added 210,000 ft&
2 of mall retail and a 220,000 ft&
2 Nordstrom .
Saks Fifth Avenue closed their store in
2002 and sold the store to
Federated Department Stores , which used the site to opened a
Bloomingdale's Home store on
September 12 ,
2003 .
Marshall Field's adopted the
Macy's name on
September 8 ,
2006 .
General Growth Properties acquired a half-interest and management of the mall in 2004, when it acquired
The Rouse Company (which had itself acquired its stake the mall in 2002). It is co-owned with an
Institutional Investor , the
California Public Employees' Retirement System .
The
Sales Tax rate for
Oak Brook ,
Illinois (
DuPage County ) is 7%.
