Non Dead Mall: Woodfield Mall - Schaumburg, Il
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2020
- A Chicago shopping staple for over 40 years, the Woodfield Mall attracts consumers from all over the Chicago metro and beyond. Come explore and learn all about this mall of today and all the way back to its early beginnings!
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This mall is my childhood, I always loved coming here as a kid and still do today, works for me since I live only 15 minutes away
I basically grew up with this mall. We lived in Lake Zurich until the early 90's and I remember at that time Woodfield had dark brown brick and earth tone carpeting. The mid-level section had all those crazy ramps that would go from level and had terraces that overlooked the main atrium area. I vaguely remember that there was a fountain in one section, and a tensegrity sculpture (basically a bunch of chromed poles that held each other up in tension with a bunch of cables) at the Marshall Fields entrance (which I think is the Macy's now.) I also remember the sunken 'conversation-pit' seating areas in some of the lower level open areas.
This shopping mall is beautiful. I like to visit there. It doesn't look like 40 years old. Great video shot inside shopping mall.
Thanks for watching.
I have been here 100+ times as someone from Schaumburg, this man brought me there like it was my first time!
I been there and I love it
Walking around entire mall you can easily hit your over 10,000 steps i a few hours
I worked in MANY STORES at WOOD FIELD MALL... they've all disappeared...the mall itself has held up very well over the years!!!...very nostalgic to watch your video...WELL DONE!
I grew up going to this mall and lived in Schaumburg until I was 34. Always went there at least once or twice a week. Woodfield was always like a mini-city by itself. I think it skewed my view of the overall health of malls because until I moved away, I didn't realize how many malls were dying because I could always count on going to Woodfield. My friends are like "most malls are dead," which I really didn't experience until moving to another state.
Great video on showing woodfield Mall. This mall is big and it has a lot of stores. A lot of different spots to eat. My favorite is Panda Express. Too bad they closed the rain forest cafe. And Woodfield mall also has a transportation trolley that takes you around the mall it's free. They also have Pace bus service that goes to this mall from different several communities towns and cities around Schaumburg. Awesome video I enjoyed it 👌🏼
Something I’ve noticed as a theme is that any mall owned by Simon is almost always doing well.
It’s because Simon is absolutely ruthless and aggressive to tenants. They have iron clad contracts and run a tight ship financially. I don’t blame them for how they handle things, clearly they know what they are doing, but boy are they tough!
Not Lincolnwood Mall
This and Stratford Mall were my childhood lol nothing made me happier than walking around here on a sunday , and this made me realize i havent been here since before CO-VID, will definitely have to go again some time soon!
I work down the road off Golf. I walk this mall in the winter on my lunch breaks like an old lady. Great video!
Thanks!
I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago and I want to thank you for your work, your quality, and research. Malls have always been a comfort to me, and now more than ever I realize how important they've been to me and how much I miss them, in the pandemic era. I'm based in Mid-Missouri and I've visited Woodfield Mall many times as it is the closest Zara to us right now. It's a great mall! But thanks so much for highlighting it and other malls and telling a better story. Not ALL malls are dying! At least not here in the Midwest. In the east there were too many malls built and some will have to close. All malls will have to evolve as the consumers want entertainment and mixed use properties beyond just shopping. It's exciting to see you feature this and I can enjoy from the comfort of my Android TV! In addition, there is a mall in Fairview Heights, Illinois called St. Clair Square Mall that was really nice and busy the last time I was there about a year ago. Would be a great property to check out. Another option would be outdoor shopping options like the Mag Mile or outlet malls, as these will probably be the future of shopping, imho. Anyway, you're great. Keep up the good work! Some of the best camera work and narration of retail videos I've seen online. ;)
You're too kind!
OMG love that mall so much fun.
Never seen this mall empty
Me neither.
worked here for over 2 years, absolutely NEVER empty!!! i live about 10 minutes from here, the idea of having a mall that isnt mega massive and always insanely crowded is weird to me!
Same but luckily people are going back to it but at a insane way
Same just visited here yesterday. And omg it was so packed. I always complain about St. Louis malls how packed it can be. But this mall is double times more busy. But this mall is way better than St. Louis malls. St. Louis malls are also pretty dangerous. There was a shooting at a mall yesterday. It was my favorite mall.
@@gaming_sportsaaron1365 unfortunately becoming a norm at malls. Sad.
In high school, I learned to drive in the Woodfield parking lot when it was still under construction. Originally the mall interior was a lot of dark brown brick, red carpeting in the octagon conversation pits, and a waterfall you could walk under! One of my classmate’s parents opened one of the original stores right off the main court, it was a hippie shop called The Plum Tree. It was tucked underneath the famous disappearing extra 2nd floor. I loved having Marshall Fields so close to my parents’ when I visited home from college. Thank you for this video, the mall still looks great, almost 50 years after opening. It has been totally Simon-ized, all white interior. In my opinion, the updates that Simon made to it are a big improvement, it feels more spacious and peaceful. Even the Sears store looks prosperous and inviting.
Agreed very successful . The white interior is sure a Simon mall and I would know because one of my local malls is one.
Remember the fish tanks?
@@pepperj Yep! This place is insanely nostalgic. My mom used to bring me here when I was little and that was always my favorite part, along with the waterfall & riding the elevator of course, was always an adventure back in the early 90s.
@@Bgz8890s Nice! I do the same now with my little girl... not the same these days but still fun.. I came across the article a few years back that has all the good photos from classic Woodfield: www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/chi-classic-photos-woodfield-mall-120131127-photogallery.html
@@pepperj Yes, I remember throwing a penny in the fountain and how the mall smelled back when smoking was allowed.
The top 5 malls in Illinois is fox valley,wood field,Louis Joliet,promenade,Chicago premium outlets Aurora
Chicago Fashsion Outlets is probably the busiest now
Add Roosevelt Collection, Michigan Avenue and State street. Chicago Premium Outlets in Aurora is open air so Michigan Avenue and State Street can be mentioned too
I used to live about 5 minutes from Woodfield back in the mid 90s. Marshall Fields was my favorite department store to visit.
It’s did so well it put almost every north shore mall out of business lol. Do gurnee mills
I used to live right down the road from this mall a few years back. I'm glad they remodeled it and made the food court bigger and better. That was one thing I always hated about the old design. Nice video!
Thanks for watching. Been to the mall a few times before the big remodel and that was one thing I was asking, where the heck is the food court.
I love how you manage the camera. Some of the other videos about malls, these people move the camera so much that you get sick.
Lol sometimes there are different styles to make it appealing. I really liked the filming where you make it look like a drone.
@@UrbexAPeakInsideAs long as it's smooth transitioning it's all good 😁
This really made me cry! I grew up in Schaumburg n damn - miss da place n all of Chicago..
so glad i’ve grown up with such a lively mall like this one! it’s always busy and bustling, almost always hard to find good parking. normally i’d find that annoying, but instead it makes me glad that this mall continues to do so well! everyone from the area adores this mall, i don’t see it going out of business anytime soon.
I miss the fish tanks under the brick waterfall.
Oooh, now that's ancient history, and I remember that, too! I grew up in Schaumburg and that mall has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and I hope it will still be there if I ever return to the US! :)
I’m happy that you started make videos again
Thanks. Iv been doing a couple of other things that's why I stopped... Wont do that again.
Urbex- A Peak Inside ok cool
Miss my Marshall Fields 😭
This is one of the most beautiful malls I have seen on UA-cam. The mall of Georgia near where I live is large and alive, but it is not very appealing. The food court at the mall of Georgia is laid out like a high school cafeteria or a refugee feeding center. The overall design of the mall of Georgia was made with zero creativity. Very square, harsh, rigid, and unappealing. Unlike the warm and comforting appeal of Woodfield mall. You can tell with Woodfield mall that there was a lot of love put into its design. The mall of Georgia had no love or passion in its design. It was designed almost with the attitude of “here’s your big mall. Now get over here and buy you peasants”. Kind of like if you are homeless and someone tells you to live in a barn. That’s the attitude the developers of mall of Georgia seemed to have. The Woodfield mall was designed with passion and love and respect for its shoppers. People can feel that and is probably why Woodfield mall thrives today.
Woodfield never has a foot court like other malls until they built the current one(Dining Pavillion) on the upper level by Sears as you pointed out. Previous to that the food establishments were spread throughout the mall. Great video brings back a ton of memories when I used to go here all the time in the 70s-90s. The mall used to have an ice skating ring that was replaced later by the indoor cinaplex(which has since been replaced by a comedy club)
I grew up with this mall, starting in the early 80s when they had the very first Sanrio store in the country besides the one in California - Gift Gate! I remember there was a John's Garage restaurant. I always walked by it to get to the Gift Gate, and it always looked like an awesome place to eat, but never did go there. What was it like? The funny thing is, I worked at the Gift Gate part time when I got older - twice! Once when I'd barely turned 20, and again when I returned to the Chicago area after many years and was in my mid 30s! By that time, it had changed ownership and was doing poorly. I understand it's no longer there at all (thanks for running it into the ground, Nakajima). Last time I was there was 2008, but if I ever return to the area, I will be back to Woodfield for sure. So many good memories there!
So many of my teenage weekends and evenings were spent at Woodfield. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
I go to the Apple Store in Woodfield (at least, I haven't been there since March, 2020, it is August 2020). If you go, skip the food court and go to Sbarro's Pizza.
They are on the first floor under the food court. Great Pizza, and bread sticks. I wish they gave refills on their beverages. If they did, I would never leave.
I remember the suv incident in September 2019 it reminded me of the mall scene of the 1980 film the blues brothers
Haha you're right. He might have been trying to copy cat that.
Lol. I lived right up the road from the Dixiesquare Mall. That's the mall the Blues Brothers drove thru. I'm also familiar with this mall. My aunt and uncle lived a few miles from Woodfield mall from "77 to "88. We would go to this mall often.
@@UrbexAPeakInside I heard it was a dude off his meds
This is a beautiful mall. I just visited Chicago two days ago. And I’m leaving Sunday. But I went here yesterday. And I walked in already saw Zara. I was very surprised Sears was still opened. Because in St. Louis malls all the Sears are closed. I live in St. Louis by the way. Planning to get a job at Chicago. Cant wait!!!
Yes this city and the suburbs have everything you can think of
Sears has the headquarters practically down the street from the mall. This location is used as their test store and plenty of higher ups go there all the time. So, I have a feeling this will be the last Sears location to close if the company ever goes belly up.
Good video. This place in some spots in the ceiling reminds me of Randall Park Mall. Thank you for filming.
Really, interesting. Wish Randall was still there.
@@UrbexAPeakInside I wish Randall Park Mall was still here also.
love going here on the weekends when its super crowded
you can’t POSSIBLY be from schaumburg, any local avoids this mall like the plauge during the weekends
@@awefawn7793 ikr
I like how you’re walking in all the spots I normally walk. Went there last week lol. But we just recently got rid of sears
Vincent Price was at the opening of Woodfield. Also had a legendary wooden slide and ice rink by johns garage back in the day.
Really nice mall...love visiting here
my friends and i used to black friday shop from night to morning almost every year and then sometimes straight to gurnee afterwards. so many memories.
i go like once a year now. good times
Thanks for the video, I was wondering how it looked since I was last there in February. I used to like going to that mall, but I can't imagine it being any fun now. I mean, I'm guessing you can't try on any clothes, which is the main point of going to stores in person vs buying online. And I doubt you can walk around while drinking a coffee from starbucks or wherever. It was the sort of place I'd go to when it was too hot or cold to go for a walk outside, and I'd usually get something from the food court while I was there, but it just wouldn't be any fun right now.
Very Nice Job! I go to the Apple Store in Woodfield (at least, I haven't been there since March, 2020, it is August 2020). If you go, skip the food court and go to Sbarro's Pizza. They are on the first floor under the food court. Great Pizza, meat balls and bread sticks. I wish they gave refills on their beverages. If they did, I would never leave.
Thanks for watching
May god bless my favorite mall ❤️ i love it
I remember going there in like 1975 when I was a teenager. They used to have head shops there.
The one I remember was called "The Alley"
Awesome, I plan on filming this mall at some point, I might film a Stratford Square video today and may upload it today.
Please do but be careful. The mall was busy and all Chicago malls require masks. It was a fun place to visit.
Urbex- A Peak Inside I will, I am not going to Woodfield for a decent amount of time, I don’t think Stratford will be to busy.
Urbex- A Peak Inside Yep, Stratford looked just like in your video, a couple more stores open, I think the sears could easily downsize again to 1 floor. The second floor is almost useless a lot of it is empty space. A good one to go to is Harlem Irving plaza and Yorktown center. Probably Spring Hill mall and Louis Joliet mall also, Spring Hill is dying ish, and Louis Joliet is thriving.
STRATFORD IS IN A SAD STATE..... its directly in between me and my boyfriends house so we go there for movies together (when we can) and it’s absolutely ridiculous how absolutely dead and already 6ft underground one mall can be, and another mall less than 30mins away can be the busiest mall in illinois.
@@awefawn7793 yeah it is sad
You have to get to the Harlem Irving Plaza in Norridge for your next non-dead mall video! It's always jumpin' there.
So recently at a hotel in downtown Chicago Loop, I found a brochure in that travel stand showing tourists to go out to Schaumburg!! Of course Woodfieldville main attraction with Streets and other related shopping plazas.
Woodfield is the BEST!
I been in Chicago IL numbers of times and even thought of moving there too! I just wonder how many of those dept, restaurants and smaller store fronts is STILL is alive in 2020 and up!
People seem to prefer Chicago Fashion Outlets, Michigan Avenue and State Street more
Roosevelt Collection is worth a mention too
Great video
They used to have a full size ice skating rink. It was on the periphery of the mall. i.e. you could enter when inside the mall, but also enter from the outside.
Gurnee Mills Mall has that. I never knew Woddfield did as well.
I believe it was the largest mall in the Midwest until the Mall of America was built.
I shopped there often in the mid 90s...would purposely drive there from Evanston in mild high snow, in order to keep my car running so the battery wouldn’t die after being recharged due to the freezing cold. I remember trying to figure out how to get from one level to the next to get to a particular store I wanted...It had very confusing multi-level entry ramps which appear to have been removed since then.
I used to work at Mars 2112 in that mall.
I moved to California about 5 years ago. It looks like some of the shops have changed there.
So glad I live 10 minutes away😍
I went to this mall in the late 90s while attending a conference. It like the updates. I had wondered how this mall had fared over time.
It's doing pretty well. A few years ago I went and it didn't look like it was going to do very well but over time they really did a change to it.
@@UrbexAPeakInside awesome! It seemed really outdated. Glad it's in good shape.
I remember when there used to be a movie theater right next to the McDonald's back in the 90's
Bro you gotta go to Brickell City Center in Miami. That’s definitely not a dead mall 😂
Midwestern native. Love the channel.
Wood field had an ice rink at one time. I lived near woodfield and spent a lot of time there.
Great mall and area...
I worked part time at Herman's Sporting Goods in the late 70's.
On black friday of 2014 this was THE marathon.
Oh the mall is now popular and a lot of more people are here.
Imagine what this mall looked like fifty years ago when it first opened up.
I know. Tell me about it.
I have gone to this mall since 2018.
Remember A&W, the spencer store, tower records I think? Is the smoothie shop by jc penny still there surf city squeeze? I used to work at the Brookstone, that closed, there used to be a sharper image too. Rainforest Cafe and that Mars restaurant what!! They had a Bose store lol and oh shit remember the "Sony Store" wow what a place!
A&W and Surf City are both still there. Bose closed in 2018/2019
@@tburrrg2502 a&w def doesn't exist at Woodfield sadly, I'm not sure if I can believe you about surf city I'll have to go check.
Actually, Allstate Arena and the Convention Center are closer to O'hare than the mall. (And it sounds like you're pronouncing Zurich Insurance as "Zurk"?). So many of the big stores have closed, such as Sears & Lord & Taylor, which is a shame. Used to shop here a lot on weekends up to a few years ago, as well as a lot of the stores on Golf Road (and many are gone, like Linens N Things, Borders and Tower Records). They did do a great job refurbishing/updating/expanding the mall over the years. With many people preferring online shopping, malls are having a tough time these days.
This place is my child hood I would always okay at the okay areas and I was also in the mall when the car drove in
great mall go there all the time
I love Woodfield Mall. Do you know about The Arboretum of South Barrington? I'm interested to know what's your opinion about it. Thanks!
For request, would you do a research and report a former Randhurst Mall, open from 1962 and closed in 2008?
I live in Prospect Prospect Heights, IL.
I was gonna do the Randhurst after the remodel. But you gave me an idea to include the history before.
I rented an apartment in Prospect Hts in early 2000s. Randhurst was still pretty decent back then. It’s a shame Malls are struggling across America. Whenever I travel to Asia and seen enormous and trendy Malls popping up everywhere, I feel sad.
A book about Randhurst was published about ten years ago, and I believe the Mount Prospect Historical Society sells copies.
....... idk how long ive been going here but Ive never noticed that the lights over the stores sorta dim and brighten themselves.......
Definitly not dead go there all the time!
Sears is closed 😢
PowerHouse Mall in Illinois!
I live in Schaumburg so I can literally walk to wood field mall
Peppy pig place opening soon
They shut down A&W??? :(
You probably won't see this but did you go to Geneva high school
And now big box stores are closing and the pandemic has killed the large indoor malls.
Worked there before
Which store.
they spent all that money on a Dining Pavilion and then Sears closes their store gets out of the mall lol
It appears everything hasn't reopened?
I counted 15-20 places still closed. It was surprisingly busy.
Okay , but who else noticed Alexa demie in 2:51 ? 🥰🥰
Meeeh 😒 an every Saturday trip
Now Lord & Taylor is closed
oakbrook and Woodfield mall are much better than orland. Much safer and oakbrook is very modern.
Ngl this mall has fallen off in recent times, in 2013 it was literally packed since it had every store and every attraction imagineable and the Microsoft store was short lived since it was removed around a year ago and A&F, and that weird marble front store with the weird cursive font lord and Taylor died and closed their stores so there has been even less traffic in the mall since then and because of covid the mall really took a nosedive in my opinion
#Stopthatcovidbozo