Klaus Department store was located on Milwaukee Avenue near Diversey in the Avondale neighborhood. Today, the Kay Shoe store is in the location where Klaus once stood. Klaus was kind of an upscale store compared to the nearby Goldblatt’s. It was like a small Marshall Field’s or Macy’s. I remember there were a lot of stairs right away when you entered the store. When I was growing up we lived a few blocks from the store and my mother and I would always walk there and shop. Those were some great times!
That’s interesting. We didn’t have a store that we could walk to. We always rode the “L” downtown to the stores. My favorite stores were Lytton’s, Glodblatts and Evans. Of course, afterwards, we had lunch at Woolworths counter.
And we never went downtown. We shopped on Milwaukee Avenue. We had Klaus, Goldblatts and Woolworth and several women’s clothing stores like Petrie. Later came The Gap (which is still there).