Whole Foods leaving Englewood elicits memories of the past

I grew up in the Englewood community in the 1950s and 1960s, and I couldn’t agree more with the Chicago Sun-Times’ editorial on Whole Foods leaving Englewood: The corner of 63^rd and Halsted was one of the mightiest shopping districts in Chicago, and it was a lifeline for us. You could get everything at Sears, and in the basement was a Hillman’s supermarket that was of high quality.

Even if you didn’t have a car, the 63^rd Street bus ran frequently, and it was nothing to see passengers board with numerous shopping bags. Sadly, like the community that surrounded it, it all started declining in the 1970s, but in its heyday it was great.