What’s your defining memory of the Lincolnwood Town Center? Here’s what you told us

We asked readers for their defining memory of going to the Lincolnwood Town Center, which is expected to close. Here’s what you told us, lightly edited for clarity:

“Buying a new suit at Carsons for an interview.”
— Ray Bieniasz

“Running from one bus at the end of the mall to the other [end] to catch the other bus, just to see it pull away and then slowly drive around the parking lot as you watch it, hopelessly looking at the next bus arrival. So you go back inside the mall, only to lose track of time and miss the second bus.”
— Tony E. Meneses

“Buying polos at Kohl’s. Sexy sexy.”
— Andy Green

“Probably when I was 8 or 9 and feeling brave enough to get my ears pierced. The first time I got my ears pierced, at 5 or so, I didn’t understand, and screamed in pain, and my mom gave in and removed them. This time I was determined. My mom put my ears on ice beforehand, then boom! They were done. A defining moment of womanhood for me.”
— Julia Margaret

“Somehow, my friend convinced me to go with him to get his mother a present on Christmas Eve. Pure shopping hell.”
— Jeffrey A. Janusch

“Going to see a large sandcastle in the middle of the mall.”
— Katie Elizabeth

“Getting my ears pierced at Claire’s as a little girl and then, many years later, taking my oldest son to trick or treat there as a toddler when it snowed one Halloween. So many great memories. I’m very sad to see it go.”
— Amanda Grace Marcheschi

“I took my son there in 1996 for his first visit [and] picture with the Easter Bunny.”
— Kimberly Rose

“Seeing the mall being built and going there every Saturday and meeting my mother there. … I could walk there. … Eating in the food court. It was never a huge mall but it was a local place.”
— Myrna Kar