Bachrach menswear shop scheduled to close

CHAMPAIGN – Longtime customers of the Bachrach menswear store at Market Place Mall are fit to be tied over news the store is planning to close.

"I was shocked. I'm still shocked," said Ponce Palmer, an O'Brien Auto Park salesman who has shopped at Bachrach stores since the 1970s.

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