Dem Chicago Alderman Wants Walgreens Charged
with Crime After Store Closes Amid Rampant
Theft, Violence
The Western Journal,
by
Johnathan Jones
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
5/5/2026 9:52:55 AM
Another pharmacy is leaving Chicago because of theft, and somehow, the villain of the story is not the people stealing from it.
The villain is apparently the business itself, which finally decided it had enough and decided to cut its losses.
According to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, a Walgreens located at 8628 S. Cottage Grove Ave. in the crime-ridden area is set to close permanently on June 4. Democratic Alderman William Hall joined residents outside the store Monday, where signs read “Senior Lives Matter” and “End Corporate Abandonment.”
“Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment,” Hall said. “It should be a crime the way they’re treating our elders.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
padiva 5/5/2026 9:57:33 AM (No. 2100778)
Why doesn't this guy open a drug store.
He could probably get a good rent deal at the empty Walgreen building.
Put YOUR money where your mouth is.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 5/5/2026 10:00:32 AM (No. 2100780)
These idiots cannot grasp that these are businesses, put there to make money, NOT to provide free goods for his criminal constituents to steal.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
paral04 5/5/2026 10:15:00 AM (No. 2100786)
Maybe this alderman should to tell his constituents to quit robbing stores and maybe they would stay open in his district.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
philsner 5/5/2026 10:16:30 AM (No. 2100788)
Leftists are completely without a clue. No one is required to supply you with anything you nit wit!
28 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
broken01 5/5/2026 10:28:24 AM (No. 2100800)
Meanwhile the bookstore next to the Walgreens has not been robbed, looted or subject to mob violence. I wonder why.
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Mr. Alderman, is first-degree corporate abandonment a felony or misdemeanor in your twisted world? You are great at posturing if nothing else
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/5/2026 10:37:01 AM (No. 2100806)
Aw gee, Thugs-R-Us doesn't like it that Walgreens doesn't want to do business with the criminals that Chicago allows to roam their streets. Business flight has been going on, gradually, for decades. Did they notice that taxis won't service certain parts of the city?
No one is required to submit themselves to victimhood.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/5/2026 10:38:59 AM (No. 2100807)
I was going to comment, but #1, #2, #3, and #4 beat me to it!
15 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/5/2026 10:51:52 AM (No. 2100815)
Wonder if the good Alderman or someone in his family steals from Walgreens. Watch a city turn into a wasteland one business at a time.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 5/5/2026 11:04:14 AM (No. 2100822)
Threats like this will just increase the number of business leaving while they can. Next will be 'exit fees' if you want to leave. Bring that up and the exodus will be on steroids.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/5/2026 11:13:11 AM (No. 2100829)
That this tactic even makes sense to Chicago democrats tells you all you need to know.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jalo1951 5/5/2026 11:28:23 AM (No. 2100843)
The biggest threat to a black person is another black person. Sometimes it is up close and personal. As in the fact they may rob you or actually hurt you. Kill some of you. Or it can be indirect as in stealing stores blind causing them to close up shop and move. I want someone of brown/black skin to stand up there and actually say exactly what is happening and why. Demand that their fellow brown/black skinned people act better. To question why they have no moral compass. If the politician doesn't like it let him open a store that serves the public. Good luck with that. Walgreens wants to be in business. They want to employ and help the people in that neighborhood to live better, easier lives. They can't and it is not their fault. Look in the mirror people. Not stating the truth does not change the issue. Stop stealing.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/5/2026 11:31:41 AM (No. 2100845)
Walgreens is creating a looting desert. Where dey gonna’ steal from?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/5/2026 11:55:37 AM (No. 2100859)
But, but the Ghetto desert is a cruel thing. Where are all of the entitled gimmedats going to shoplift their necessities? The SNAP money is reserved for sports betting and adult beverages.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/5/2026 12:05:59 PM (No. 2100867)
Why you duz say that?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
moebellini3 5/5/2026 12:07:42 PM (No. 2100868)
The people complaining are the problem. It's their families, their children who are the problem. Control your family and Walgreens wouldn't have a problem. Look at every democratic run city and you will find the same people causing the same problems. Every democratic run city is out of control because of the elephant in the room that nobody wants to address. If you do you're a racist. Connect the dots and you will see the problem.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
marbles 5/5/2026 12:14:53 PM (No. 2100873)
Walgreens is a business, not a hobby. It's responsibility is to its stockholders.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/5/2026 12:46:16 PM (No. 2100889)
Walgreen’s is creating a “drug desert” on tye south sude of Chicago. The irony here is thick…
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Walgreens should respond by offering to sell him the business for $1, if he personally assumes the lease and liabilities.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
offrope 5/5/2026 3:46:09 PM (No. 2100936)
Directive 10-289 clearly said that no business may close or change their inventory.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/5/2026 3:56:26 PM (No. 2100946)
Possibly, the esteemed alderman’s brothers, cousins, and other extended family members are also into the stealing and looting.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/5/2026 4:39:36 PM (No. 2100972)
When it's THEIR family it's usually not a problem. When it's HER family with multiple daddies, that's the problem. We have made it possible for single mothers to do better financially than a married couple. I remember a sign from the past that used to be displayed by many business establishments: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." Try that today and you are a racist. If you can not afford to operate a Non-Profit Organization in these cities, your only recourse is to shut it down.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
SALady 5/5/2026 6:16:42 PM (No. 2100997)
Comrade Hall-ski, as much as you wish for us to be a communist dictatorship where the government owns and controls every aspect of business, Walgreens is a private company and can close any store they want for any reason at any time!!!!
If it is a bad idea for them to close this location like he thinks it is, then another pharmacy chain, like CVS, will swoop in and open a location right away. But it's not a bad idea. They are being robbed blind, and nobody else is going to want to take their place at getting robbed blind!!!! Until these urban ghettos start self-controlling their residents and stop the rampant crime, they have nobody but themselves to blame!!!!!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/5/2026 6:21:57 PM (No. 2101002)
It's obvious this guy has never had a real job much less run a business.
You can't force someone to stay open when they are losing money unless you are prepared to cover their costs.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 5/6/2026 9:03:40 AM (No. 2101249)
The sheeple have yet to realize that they situation they are currently in was caused by their own voting record.
Defund the cops.
Tax the rich.
Don't sentence crooks to jail time.
Reward illegitimate births.
Sheeple are not smart.
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