590:: This article needed some loving care. I spent some time today researching this mall, revamping, and adding a number of references. The mall is notable for being the first enclosed shopping mall in the region (and was the primary mall from at least 1965-1971, making it notable), and then reinventing itself over time to survive - it now primarily serves a Hispanic population. It has also received significant press coverage. The references I added today include the Chicago Sun-Times, Lake County News-Sun, and lengthy pieces by online retail history sites deadmalls.com and labelscar.com. Google news archive tells me there are more articles focused on the mall on the pay archives for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times which I don't have access too (I have a free highbeam account this month, but these sources aren't on there far enough back to access). Although this mall is smaller than a large regional mall which would be automatically notable under
563:, Mall of America is notable. A small town shopping mall is not. There is no real historical significance to this mall, unlike certain others such as Roosevelt Field in NY which was an airport Charles Lindeburgh took off from on his famous flights. It's just another shopping mall most people have never heard of and never will.
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I don't see anything here that establishes notability. The two websites mentioned so far are a self published blog, and a commercial promotional site. There don't seem to be any references at all in books, and the news search just turns up a few widely spaced articles that mention the mall in passing
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Not at all. It was an application of common sense. AFD is not to judge if the current article is good enough... but if the topic is actually notable. Being the first at something
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Nice rescue job. I think the news articles you found probably put it over the top a(though just barely)notablility wise. Therefore I am striking out my delete vote.
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Apparently non-notable mall, as there are no non-trivial sources cited, and a Google search for non-trivial reliable sources came up dry.
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