CHICAGO (WLS) -- Walter E. Smithe, Jr., founder of Walter E. Smithe Furniture & Design, has died at the age of 86, his family said. Smithe's wife of 64 years was by his side when he passed, and he was ...

CHICAGO (CBS)--Friends and family are gathering to say goodbye to Walter E Smithe. The 86-year-old, who was the founder of Walter E. Smithe Furniture and Design, died earlier this month. Smithe ...

If you grew up in Chicago, you can probably hum it. The Walter E. Smithe furniture jingle — “you dream it, we build it” — has been a longtime fixture in the firm’s television ads, just as the Smithe ...

Walter E. Smithe Furniture & Design, the 80-year-old Chicago retailer that turned three brothers into celebrity pitchmen, is embroiled in a legal family feud. Tim Smithe, 62, the former chief ...

After 45 years at WGN, Tom Skilling deserves to take it easy! So, in honor of his retirement, the good people at Walter E. Smithe Furniture made him a custom chair! More on how we’ve celebrated his ...

Tim Smithe of the Smithe furniture family is suing his brothers over the buyout he took to leave the company nearly a decade ago. A website promoting the gospel music of Tim Smithe’s wife, Mary Astor ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Walter Edward Smithe Jr., the founder of Chicago's Walter E. Smithe Furniture & Design, has died at the age of 86. The Smithe family announced that their patriarch died this past ...

Walter Edward Smith Jr. of Walter E. Smithe Furniture & Design, the Chicago-area furniture store, has died at age 86. His family said he died peacefully with his wife of 64 years, Florence Flynn ...

Walter E. Smithe Jr., who built a furniture store empire that includes a big-box store on U.S. 30 near the Southlake Mall, died Oct. 9 of natural causes at the age of 86.

The founder of well-known Chicago-area furniture company Walter E. Smithe has died, his family announced Wednesday. The 86-year-old patriarch of the Smithe family, Walter Edward Smithe Jr., "died ...