Question: Barstow Mall opened in 1975 with which big box department store chain heaquartered in Illinois as one of its stores?

Context articles: Kmart
Ayre and Sons
Concord Mall (Delaware)
Gus Blass Department Store
Barstow Mall
Times Square Stores
The Sample
Charles Towne Square
Independence Center
Gimbels

Kmart is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States.
 The chain purchased Sears for $11 billion in 2005, forming a new corporation under the name Sears Holdings Corporation.
 The Kmart name was incorporated in 1916 while the first store didn't open its doors until 1962.
 At its peak in 2000, Kmart operated 2,171 stores including 105 Super Kmart Center locations.
 For the 2005 fiscal year under the new company, the Kmart store count was at 1,416 with only 55 Super Kmart Center locations.
 Currently, the chain is operating 624 stores with only 1 Super Kmart Center location remaining (Store #4939 in Warren, OH).
 This number is the amount of stores that still exist after the closings that took place during the first quarter of 2017.
Ayre and Sons Ltd. was a department store chain in Newfoundland, Canada.
 The chain was formed in 1859 in St. John's, Newfoundland by Charles R. Ayre.
 Ayre opened his flagship store on Water Street in St. John's in 1859.
 After Newfoundland joined the Canadian confederation in 1949, Ayre's opened some more stores across the province in the 1960s, with locations in Mount Pearl, Carbonear, Corner Brook, and Wabush.
 A location in the Avalon Mall in St. John's also opened when the mall opened in 1967.
 However, the company began to encounter financial problems in the 1980s, and in 1991, Ayre and Sons filed for bankruptcy.
Concord Mall, is an shopping mall, located north of the city of Wilmington, in the unincorporated Brandywine Hundred area along U.S. Route 202, is Delaware's second-largest shopping mall.
 A short distance south of the Pennsylvania border, it attracts shoppers from Pennsylvania and other neighboring states wishing to take advantage of tax-free shopping in Delaware.
 The mall opened in stages over a period of several years.
 The first stage was an Almart, a now-defunct discounter, which opened in 1965.
 In 1971, a Pomeroy's (now-defunct department store chain) was added.
 The Almart later became a Jefferson Ward (Montgomery Ward-owned discounter), and was then a Bradlees for a brief time until it was demolished for a Sears.
 The mall contains over 90 stores and features a fountain surrounded by a garden.
 It is owned by Allied Properties.
The Gus Blass Department Store is a historic commercial building at 318-324 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.
 It is a seven story masonry structure, built in 1912 to a design by George R. Mann, a leading Arkansas architect.
 It was one of the first instances of two-way concrete slab construction in the nation, and was one of the first department stores in the state to be air conditioned (in 1936).
 The Blass Department Store was for many years the city's largest department store, and remained in business here into the 1970s, ultimately becoming a part of the Dillard's department store chain before closing in 1972.
Barstow Mall is a shopping mall in Barstow, California.
 It opened in 1975 with two anchor stores: Sears and Kmart.
 Kmart moved outside the mall in the early 1990s and its building was never re-tenanted.
 The Sears building was later occupied by a Big Lots discount store, which closed in 2003.
Times Square Stores (also called TSS and TSS Seedman's) was an American department store chain based in New York City that operated from 1929 to 1989.
 By the late 1980s the chain operated 12 stores in New York and 6 in Puerto Rico, and an off-price ladies' apparel chain, "Finders Keepers", which had 15 locations.
 The New York department stores ranged in size from 160,000 to 220000 sqft .
 During its prime it was considered Long Island's most prominent discount department store chain.
The Sample, also known as The Sample Dress Shop or The Sample Shop, was a family-owned, high end department store specializing in upscale ladies clothing and furnishings based in Buffalo, New York.
 The original store was established by Anne W. Bunis on Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo in 1928.
 The company started when Mrs. Bunis returned from a trip to New York City with a set of 48 "sample" dresses, which she in turn sold for $12.75 each.
 Expansion occurred during the early 1950s with stores at Lancaster, New York; Lockport, New York; Thruway Plaza (later Thruway Mall) in Cheektowaga, New York; South Buffalo at 2182 Seneca Street; and Downtown Buffalo at 554 Main Street, the former home of Flint & Kent.
 The Downtown Buffalo store closed in 1959.
 In 1961, a store opened in Amherst, New York and in 1969, a store opened at Seneca Mall in West Seneca, New York.
 In 1971, a store opened at Eastern Hills Mall, with another store opening up at the Summit Park Mall in 1972, and in 1985, a store opened in McKinley Mall in Hamburg, New York.
 The last store in the then 11-store chain opened in 1988 at Walden Galleria in Cheektowaga, New York.
 In 1990, following the death of company chairman Maer Bunis, the company began a rapid descent into bankruptcy.
 On January 13, 1991, the flagship Hertel Avenue store closed.
Charles Towne Square was an indoor shopping mall located in North Charleston, South Carolina opened in 1976 by developer Melvin Simon & Associates.
 It was most noted for its large "town square" style clock and children's train ride during Christmas time.
 The mall's tenants included original anchors Montgomery Ward, JCPenney and Edward's, a local department store which would later be sold to Kuhn's-Big K and renamed "Big K-Edwards."
 Big K-Edwards closed and Wilson's Catalog Showrooms moved into the space.
 The Wilson's chain was later sold to Service Merchandise.
 In addition to the mall's anchors, the shopping complex also featured approximately 75 specialty stores and a General Cinemas.
 The mall opened with great fanfare in 1976 with a Charlestonian bi-centennial theme.
 Television celebrity Ed McMahon led the festivities, complete with American revolutionary war-era costumes.
 Other luminaries included World War II hero Mark Clark, football great Rosie Grier, and Claude Akins.
Independence Center is a 1,032,000 sqft super-regional shopping mall located in Independence, Missouri.
 The mall opened in 1974.
 Its three department stores were Macy's, Sears and Stix, Baer & Fuller's.
 The mall featured a unique three-level, 60 ft central atrium, with a series of ramps and stair risers traversing the expanse of open space.
 In the center of the atrium, on the lowest floor, was a food court.
 When it first opened and for many years afterward, the mall's advertising carried the memorable slogan "Independence Center: The "I" has it."
 Independence Center even featured an enormous flashing advertising marquee which stood along I-70.
 Independence Center was built by Homart, a division of Sears Roebuck & Co.
 It was later acquired, owned and managed by Chicago-based LaSalle.
 The mall saw its first cosmetic renovation in the mid-1980s.
 Stix Baer & Fuller was replaced by Dillard's in 1984.
 In 1985, after Dillard's acquired Macy's midwest stores, it sold the Independence Center location to Mercantile Stores, then the parent company of The Jones Store Co. In 1994, Independence Center was purchased by Simon Property Group.
 In 1996, the mall added a two-story carousel in the atrium; and in 1998, the mall underwent a massive $20 million renovation, which improved the property's aesthetics and vertical transportation, and also improved the food court.
 Also in 1998, a large children's play area was added.
 In 2004, Independence Center saw another renovation, which added small shop space on the outside of the mall facing 39th Street.
 In 2006 Macy's returned to its original location in the mall after the Federated-May department stores merger, which resulted in all Kansas City area Jones Store locations being converted to Macy's stores.
Gimbel Brothers (Gimbels) was an American department store corporation from 1887 until 1987.
 Adam Gimbel opened the first store in Vincennes, Indiana that would later lead to his son Bernard opening the first store in the chain of Gimbels Department Stores in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The company is known for creating the Gimbels Thanksgiving Day Parade, the oldest parade in the country.
 Gimbels was also once the largest department store chain in the country.
 By the time it closed in 1987, Gimbels had 35 stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Connecticut.