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June 24, 2024 at 7:04 PM. CHICAGO - New plans were unveiled Monday for the future of the closed Walmart facilities in Chatham. Walmart is donating the former Walmart Academy and neighboring ...
Walmart announced on Tuesday plans to close four stores in the Chicago area in the coming months. In a news release, the U.S.-based retailer said the reason for the store closures is due to the ...
Walmart announced Tuesday it will abruptly close four underperforming Chicago stores, citing millions in annual losses. The company said its eight Chicago stores collectively have not been ...
The Stevenson family, initially rooted in central Illinois and later based in the Chicago metropolitan area, has provided four generations of Illinois officeholders. Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914) was a Vice President of the United States, as well as a Congressman; Lewis Stevenson (1868–1929), son of Adlai, served as Illinois Secretary of State.
The last of the Chicago-area Cub Foods stores closed on December 10, 2006. A majority of them were sold to Central Grocers Cooperative and operated as Strack & Van Til and Ultra Foods by a wholly-owned unit of the cooperative, and as Garden Fresh Markets by one of its members; [9] others were sold to Grand Mart International Foods.
In 2006, Country Club Hills became the location of Chicago metropolitan area's largest Wal-Mart Supercenter at over 203,000 square feet (18,900 m 2). The development was an anchor to the first phase of the Gatling Square Mile, Cook County's largest parcel of undeveloped land at about 400 acres (1.6 km 2). [citation needed]
Chicago is exploring the idea of creating a city-owned grocery store to address food inequity after several grocery giants, including Walmart and Whole Foods, have shuttered stores in the city.
Expansion of the University of Illinois at Chicago into Maxwell Street. The University of Illinois at Chicago was established at the Harrison/Halsted area in 1965, the location chosen by Mayor Richard J. Daley. This was unpopular with the locals, who had been promised more low-income housing by the city, and there were numerous protests ...