This A.C. Roebuck &Company later became Sears, Roebuck and Company and in 1893 moved to Chicago.

In 1988 IBM and Sears, Roebuck created an ambitious commercial online service for ordinary Americans called Prodigy. Shortly, however, AOL came to dominate the business in the U.S..

Then he bought a five-dollar Sears Roebuck guitar and, plucking on that while alternately blowing the harmonica and singing, he became a one-man band.