Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1913 — CHICAGO LAND MARK BOWS TO PROGRESS [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO LAND MARK BOWS TO PROGRESS

The Hub Moves Across State Street to New Home. " 7“ Chicago, Feb. 24. —Another Chicago land mark has given way to the march of progress. . Old residents of Chicago have just witnessed the transformation of one of the city's oldest institutions. The Hub, which for more than a quarter of a century has occupied the buildings at the northwest corner of State street and Jackson boulevard, moves across the street this week and takes posession of the magnificent eighteenstory Lytton building erected on the northeast corner of the same crossing ' by Henry C. Lytton, president of The Hub./ One by one the great merchandise institutions which make State street the greatest retail shopping district in the world have outgrown their original quarters and the small nondescript buildings of early days have given place to mammoth steel structures. The Hub is the latest of these great' establishments to take possession of a home especially erected to meet its needs. The first eight floors and basements of its new palatial home which towers eighteen stories high at the south end of the State street shopping district, will be devoted exclusively to men's clothing and kindred lines of haberdashery, npon which {he reputation of this house has been built during its more than a quarter' of a century existence. Clothing merchants and buyers from all over the country, as well as thousands of men who appreciate good clothes, are crowding the store this week inspecting the completeness of the equipment of the new Hub and the variety and excellence of its stock.