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Walmart Expansion Continues With New Lakeview 'Express' Store

Posted 12.01.2011

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Chicago's latest Walmart location -- a 14,800-square-foot "express" store -- opened Wednesday in the heart of the city's Lakeview neighborhood. The...

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Chicago Could Get Dozens Of Wal-Marts

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wal-Mart is prepared to build "dozens" of Chicago stores large and small if Mayor Daley can find a way to break a six-year-old City Council stalemate ...

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Wal-Mart In Chicago: Ald. Beale Says He Can Make It Happen

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Far South Side Ald. Anthony Beale (9th) said Wednesday he has the votes to break the stalemate that has prevented Wal-Mart from building as many as fi...

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Olympics Bust Is Wal-Mart's Gain?

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that Mayor Daley's Olympic dream has gone up in flames, a South Side alderman is turning up the heat for City Council approval of Chicago's second...

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Nearly 70 Percent Of Chicagoans Want Second Wal-Mart: Poll

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new Tribune/WGN poll found that 68 percent of city residents would like to see a new Wal-Mart store in Chicago, and 72 percent say Wal-Mart would be...

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Wal-Mart Chicago Fight: Creating Jobs Pitted Against Protecting Small Businesses

Chicago Sun-Times | MARY MITCHELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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In many areas starved for retail businesses, welcoming a Wal-Mart would be a no-brainer. But Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) is having one heck of a time...

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Wal-Mart Conducts Push Poll To Promote Chicago Expansion

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the face of it, a new poll commissioned by Wal-Mart sounds convincing - and massive ... ...

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Wal-Mart's Chicago Push Gets Hip-Hop Backing (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Supporters of Wal-Mart's controversial bid to open a second Chicago store, at 83rd at Stewart in Chatham, now have starpower on their side. Chicago h...

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We're Mad and We're Not Going to Take it Anymore

Ald. Howard Brookins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ald. Howard Brookins

Many of our neighborhoods are suffering in food deserts and increasing violence, yet we are slamming our doors to the one food retailer who is ready to invest in our poorest neighborhoods without asking for any financial incentives?

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Daley Touts Wal-Mart As Store Proposal Moves In City Council

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Richard Daley and officials with Wal-Mart appeared at a green jobs news conference today, so it was inevitable that talk would turn to Wal-Mart'...

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Wal-Mart Plans Farmers Market In Latest PR Offensive

Chicago Tribune | Sandra M. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to hold a farmers market on Saturday at the vacant site where it wants to build its second city store as it steps up pressu...

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South Side Wal-Mart Plans Dead: Daley

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Richard Daley contends there is no chance the latest effort to have a Wal-Mart built on Chicago's South Side will succeed. Daley said Thursday ...

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Wal-Mart Chicago Expansion Facing City Council

Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whether the city should allow Wal-Mart to expand its presence here - a political donnybrook that gave birth to the big-box minimum wage ordinance that...

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Alderman Wants 2nd Chicago Wal-Mart

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ald. Howard Brookins (21st) said Monday he plans to introduce an amended redevelopment agreement at the April 22 Council meeting that would allow Wal-...

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Organized Labor Digging In Against Wal-Mart's Chicago Push

Crain's Chicago Business | Monée Fields-White | Posted 05.25.2011

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Opposition to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is stiffening at City Hall even as the retailer pitches its expansion as an antidote to recession. [...] The reason...

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Wal-Mart Planning Up To Five New Chicago Stores

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Citing the need for new investment to boost the sagging local economy, Wal-Mart is preparing a new push for approval of as many as five new stores in ...

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Wal-Mart Still Eyeing Second City Store

Chicago Tribune | Sandra M. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is considering reviving efforts to open a second store in Chicago. "We've shown ourselves to be a very viable business and a rel...

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