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Chicago Tribune: Chicago dealt another blow from a familiar corporate citizen. This time it’s Walgreens.

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Thursday, October 9, 2025 1:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You shouldn't have shut the world down for Covid, Democrats.

Get fucked.


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ow-100000141.html

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Thursday, October 9, 2025 1:59 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


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If you need more evidence of how badly downtown Chicago is struggling to recover from the pandemic, look no further than two recent pieces of news.

The first wasn’t surprising. The office vacancy rate downtown hit a record 28% in the third quarter, according to data from real estate firm CBRE. Nearly three of every 10 square feet of office space in the central business district is going unleased right now. Brutal.

But the second was a jolt. Walgreens, now owned by a New York private equity firm, said Monday that it’s departing its 200,000 square foot space at the Old Post Office, the massive building straddling the Eisenhower Expressway, which serves as a gateway to downtown from the west. The pharmacy chain will relocate an undisclosed number of workers — at one point, there were 1,800 in the Old Post Office space — to its Deerfield headquarters by the end of January.



That will create a royal commuting headache for Walgreens employees who live in the city or in the west suburbs. As we understand it, the company is requiring its workers in the office four days a week.

But the decision also is a symbolic blow to Chicago.

It was only five years ago — just a month before COVID sent office workers home for months on end, doing their jobs via Zoom calls and remote computer links to their offices — that Walgreens moved workers into the renovated post office. Walgreens’ lease for the 200,000 square feet, signed in 2018, was that project’s biggest deal at the time, paving the way for a parade of other corporate tenants to follow. The old main post office, an embarrassing empty husk for decades, emerged as a triumph — one of the largest adaptive redevelopments of a historic building in U.S. history.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who succeeded in luring a host of Chicago’s biggest corporations to open major outposts or move their suburban headquarters to the city, said in October 2018 at an event announcing a separate Walgreens’ investment in the city, “We’re not resting until you leave Deerfield completely.”


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Friday, October 10, 2025 3:36 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You shouldn't have shut the world down for Covid, Democrats.
Get fucked.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/editorial-chicago-dealt-another-bl
ow-100000141.html

Covid? Didn't Fauci quit government, so he can't start more Biowarfare?
Recovery from Libtard Lockdowns? this is 2025. Does anybody outside Chicago think exodus is due to something other than Blue Pill rampant anarchy in Libtard Shitholes? The whole rest of the real world has moved on.

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Friday, October 10, 2025 10:59 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Covid lockdowns changed everything.

Trump wouldn't be President now (either way), and the Democrats wouldn't find themselves in the teens in polling approval.

You may say you forgot about Covid, but nobody believes that.

We're not ever going to truly understand how much that fucked everybody up, and we're just beginning to see how crazy it drove some people.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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