Virgin Mobile Starting Chicago Expansion, First Store Right Here

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Between The Red Balloon children's store and Taste of Heaven on Clark Street in Andersonville is a storefront that will be the first of a series of Chicago Virgin Mobile stores. This is actually happening though this bustling neighborhood strip is already saturated with wireless stores including a T-Mobile across the street and a newly opened Verizon where His Stuff previously occupied. Yep, seemingly in preparation for the new Virgin Hotel Richard Branson is moving ahead on the mobile expansion in Chicago with leases already signed at a nearby Uptown Location at 5556 N Broadway and a Lincoln Park Location at 2562 N Clark Street.
· Virgin Mobile [Official Site]