Entrepreneur. He gained fame as a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American clothier who immigrated alone through Ellis Island as a thirteen-year-old orphan boy. A "responsible adult" was assigned to greet the boy, but no one came to the docks for him, leaving him abandoned and speaking only Yiddish. He started his life in the United States at the kind hand of a stranger when a local butcher took him home. The details of his journey from New York City to Chicago are not well-documented, but two years later, he became a street necktie peddler in the Market Street district before earning enough money to purchase a horse and wagon for his "mobile store" to travel to the southside of Chicago. Later, he had an old truck. After his successful adventure, he opened his first clothing store in 1919 in a two-story building in Englewood while publishing his store's ads in the local newspapers in mainly Roman Catholic neighborhoods. His store logo was "Credit With a Smile." He built a reputation of being an honest businessman who was generous to local charities. Sachs and his wife, Anna, whom he married in 1916, settled in the Hyde Park neighborhood and had two daughters, Zenia and Rhoda, and a son, also named Morris B. During the Great Depression, he introduced the "lay-away" plan of purchasing items from his store, selling more clothing at lower prices than all of his rivals. In 1934, he launched the "Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour" on radio station WENR, which aired on Sunday afternoons from 12:30 to 1:30, with local talents given a first chance, such as singers Mel Torme, the Harmonicats and Frankie Lane, actress Pat Britton, and comedian Steve Allen, winning the first prize. By 1949, "Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour" was on television for seven years. In 1938, the FBI was called when his daughter Rhoda and grandson were kidnapped for ransom, but the criminals were caught without any harm to his family. Sources state he had a minor stroke during this ordeal and began to walk with a limp and using a cane. During World War II, he canceled the debt of nearly $250,000 to anyone joining the military. In 1947, he purchased the Art Deco architectural building between Milwaukee and Diversey Avenues from Hirsch and Company, and over time, the building was identified as the Morris B. Sachs Building, becoming a restored historical landmark in the 21st century. After the war, he owned a multi-millionaire business, opening a second store by 1948 with seven hundred employees and adding hundreds of square feet to the first store. In 1955, he entered city politics, becoming a candidate for city treasurer on the third term ballot of Mayor Martin Kennelly. In a three-way Democratic mayoral election, John Daley was the winner. In a change in Daley's ticket, he was asked to run as the city treasurer on Daley's Democratic ticket against the Republican candidate. Although Kennelly was not pleased, Sachs ran and received more votes than anyone else on the ticket. Daley soon learned that Sachs did not allow dishonesty and laziness on the city's time, firing three long-time city employees or "deadwood" within months and upsetting the city's political plans. At one point, the position of City Treasurer was going to be abolished, but Sachs remained in his elected office as the local newspaper supported his actions. He managed a tight city budget. He donated $1,000 of his monthly salary from the city to a list of charities selected by an independent committee, which included a wide range of charities, medical research, libraries, and schools. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in the spring 1956 Democratic primary. On March 15, 1957, the doors to Sach's State Street store opened, putting his name on the list of Jewish Merchant Princes of State Street. According to his obituary, he died in his sleep from an apparent heart attack months later at age 61. Despite his rags to riches story, he did not leave a vast fortune, as he gave most of it away.