Kohl's

Kohl’s traces its origin to Maxwell Kohl, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1927 from the town of Garwolin. He opened a small corner grocery in Milwaukee that became Kohl’s Food Stores by 1946 and grew into a regional supermarket chain. The first Kohl’s department store opened in Brookfield, Wisconsin, in 1962, applying the grocery family’s discipline to mid-price apparel and home goods. Sold by the Kohl family in 1972 and later spun out, the company grew through the 1980s and 1990s into one of America’s largest department-store chains.