Hill’s Hallmark in Park Ridge closed on June 17. A new remodeled Hallmark store is expected to open in July, the outgoing store owner said. For 30 years, Holly Stricker said her relationships with her customers at her Park Ridge greeting card store were like those in the television sitcom Cheers. “Everybody sort of knows everybody… everyone knows your name,” she said.
“Everybody has been so sad and so happy,” Stricker said of her customers, who came for their last visit from Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Edison Park, and beyond. “I just can’t believe it.” “Laurie and I were in the hotel business, and I said, ‘Do you want to open up a store?’ and she was very easygoing,” remembers Stricker. “I just thought it’d be so fun to have a Hallmark store because of everything they represent. It’s just like happy things and happy times and nice occasions,” she said.
Stricker said the business started to decline after the COVID-19 pandemic’s lockdown. “You don’t have to go out to a store. You can go on Amazon, you can go to Target.com. You can get all the clothes you want.”
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