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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Business
Talia Soglin

As Walmart closes stores in Chicago, community leaders raise concerns about health care, pharmacy access

Kimberly Jackson-Miller, a resident of Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, has been a customer of the Walmart in Chatham since it opened more than a decade ago.

The Chatham Walmart Supercenter, along with three of the company’s Neighborhood Markets — in Grand Boulevard, Little Village and Lakeview — will close Sunday, a decision Walmart announced on Tuesday.

Walmart cited the stores’ unprofitability for its decision to close them, saying they lose “tens of millions of dollars a year” and that their yearly losses “nearly doubled in just the last five years.”

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