Maurice Goldblatt

Maurice Goldblatt (December 17, 1889 – July 17, 1984) was the co-founder of the Goldblatt's department store.

Biography Goldblatt was born to a Jewish family in Staszów, the son of Simon Goldblatt and Hannah Diamond. His family immigrated to Chicago in 1905. In 1914, he and his brother Nathan opened a general merchandise store in a Polish neighborhood in Chicago located at Chicago Avenue and Ashland Avenue. As his brother Nathan died of cancer in 1944, Maurice was a strong supporter of research to fight cancer and was seminal in establishing the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation in 1947; and donated $3.4 million facility to the University of Chicago Medical Center.