Curbed Reports: Wal-Mart is Coming to Wrigleyville

Racked is no longer publishing. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here.

And now, from our favorite cousin on the flip side of town, Curbed Chicago gives us the skinny on the situation in Wrigleyville at the Recycled Paper Greetings building just north of all of those nifty little shops on Broadway.

Yesterday morning, we reported a rumor that Wal-Mart was planning to open a store in the old Recycled Paper Greetings building at 3636 N. Broadway. By evening, those gumshoe reporters over at Crain's followed up the scoop and confirmed it. Naturally, community groups in Wrigleyville are grumbling about it, and new 46th-ward alderman James Cappleman sounds a little miffed that he's the last person to find out about it. (He first heard about it last week, but Wal-Mart apparently didn't contact him until yesterday afternoon.) Read more. [Curbed Chicago]