Madden Home Gift Shop Leaves Deerfield for Glencoe

Sheryl Roy had two words to explain her decision to move her Madden Home gift shop from Deerfield to Park Avenue in Glencoe: foot traffic.

“I wasn't even looking, and I found this,” Roy said. “I knew it was the place.”

Her old store was in an Victorian house that had little of that crucial foot traffic, as many of her Glencoe customers ended up stopping in as they walked by.

Madden Home closed in Deerfield in May and opened in June across from the Starbucks coffee shop at 347 Park Ave. Her store, which sells odds and ends gift items along with glassware and kitchen items, occupies the space B Friends clothing store once did. The former tenant, coincidentally, moved to Deerfield.

Roy's shop is one of two new stores in Glencoe this summer. The other, , is tucked away--aptly so--at 312 Tudor Ct. and sells indie label women's clothing and cosmetics.

Roy said she had worked much of her adult life in retail before opening her business in 2009 to fulfill a lifelong passion. Her store carries items for as little as $5 to as much as $1,200.

“Everyone who has come in has said that Glencoe needs a shop like this,” she said. “We get in things all the time, and we hope to keep people excited.”