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			Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an 
			American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears 
			and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1893, reincorporated by Richard Sears 
			and new partner Julius Rosenwald in 1906. Formerly based at the 
			Sears Tower in Chicago and currently headquartered in Hoffman 
			Estates, Illinois, the operation began as a mail ordering catalog 
			company and began opening retail locations in 1925. The first 
			location was in Evansville, Indiana. In 2005, the company was bought 
			by the management of the American big box chain Kmart, which formed 
			Sears Holdings upon completion of the merger.  |