Getting sick of Walgreens

This article sums up what is going on everywhere in Chicago. Walgreens is eating up retail space everywhere, it seems: http://www.**************/index.php/p...ity-charter_82 The Walgreens amendment to the Chicago city charter Posted on December 22, 2005 by Alison Soltau This just in from our man Â"The BenchÂ" in Irving Park: When the Mobil station at the corner of Irving Park Road and Pulaski Road was bulldozed in late summer I was curious about the lotÂ's fate. I assumed it would become a higher-line condo project, similar to the luxury home developments a few blocks west. Or even better, some new and strange addition to this major intersection. But it was not to be. InsteadÂ… I believe there is a little known codicil in the Chicago city charter which requires all citizens to never be further than 500 yards from a Walgreens at any time. OK, maybe a half mile. Or maybe Walgreens has a lien on every property in the city, just in case.>