Editing Evergreen Park, Illinois (section)

==Historical landmarks==

;Evergreen Plaza, "The Plaza"

The [[The Plaza (mall)|Evergreen Plaza]], located on 95th and Western, was an indoor shopping mall originating from the early 1950s. In 1952, real estate developer [[Arthur Rubloff]] debuted the Evergreen Plaza in the heart of the southwest Chicago suburbs. A few years after the shopping mall's debut, Rubloff decided to enclose the mall thereby making it the first indoor shopping mall in the Chicago area.<ref name="theplazamall.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theplazamall.org/plaza.php?page=history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929085637/http://www.theplazamall.org/plaza.php?page=history|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 29, 2007|title = Steam Cleaner}}</ref> As a result, Rubloff changed shopping by allowing people the opportunity to pull up, park, and shop for various goods all in one place. Since the 1950s the Evergreen Park Plaza had seen more than $8 million in major internal & external improvements.<ref name="theplazamall.org"/> Evergreen Plaza was shortened to be acknowledged as, "The Plaza". The Plaza covered {{convert|1200000|sqft|m2}}, and two stories.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theplazamall.org/plaza.php?page=leasing#more|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070114134802/http://www.theplazamall.org/plaza.php?page=leasing#more|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 14, 2007|title = Steam Cleaner}}</ref> As of 2006, The Plaza had an annual visitor count of roughly 7 million people.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> After 61 years of operation, The Plaza closed for redevelopment on May 31, 2013. The Plaza, in its new form, re-opened on October 18, 2018, and was renamed the Evergreen Marketplace.