Walgreens

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Walgreens on Main Street, a regular muttered one morning, ‘I wonder if they’ve run out of Band-Aids again.’ By lunchtime, every package was empty. Soon after, a delivery driver arrived with an emergency supply, but no one could remember ordering them. A neighbor quipped, 'Must be Walgreens’ secret stash!' And from that day forward, whenever someone needed a Band-Aid, they simply asked for it by name—‘Hey, anyone seen our friendly neighborhood Band-Aid?’

2. At Walgreens late at night, a delivery driver swears he saw an old man in a trench coat disappear into thin air while waiting for the elevator. Finally, the elevator arrived and our delivery guy got inside. As the doors closed, he heard someone whisper, ‘Next time, use the stairs!’ Turns out, it was just an old joke from the janitor who lived above Walgreens.

3. At dawn, when most pharmacies are quiet, a delivery driver noticed something unusual outside Walgreens. A small bird kept flying in circles around the neon sign, as if trying to figure out how to escape its glow. Finally, an old lady walking her dog approached and gently shooed the little fellow away with her umbrella. The bird took one last look at the puzzled delivery driver before flying off into the morning mist. From then on, locals joked that Walgreens had its own ‘night watchman’—a tiny, confused sentinel who couldn’t decide between rest and retirement.

4. At Walgreens in downtown Chicago, a customer overheard an announcement over the intercom: ‘Attention, please! We have just received our weekly shipment of rainbows and unicorns—now available in aisle three.’ Curious, the customer rushed to aisle three only to discover that ‘rainbows’ were actually packets of multicolored candies, while ‘unicorns’ turned out to be colorful hair clips. A delivery driver nearby giggled and whispered to his colleague, ‘Guess they had a slow week!’