Walgreens

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Walgreens on Main Street, customers started noticing something peculiar one morning. A regular asked aloud, ‘Why is there always a stack of old newspapers in front of the pharmacy counter?’ Soon enough, an elderly delivery driver mentioned that he used to work for the local newspaper and would occasionally drop off extra copies. No one believed him until they saw him arrive with another bundle one rainy afternoon. The regulars laughed it off, shaking their heads and muttering, 'Old habits die hard!'

2. At Walgreens in downtown Chicago, a delivery driver once accidentally left behind an unusual package. For days afterward, customers began receiving mysterious notes with cryptic messages like ‘Pick up your order soon’ or ‘Wrong address? Try again.’ Finally, someone noticed that the notes were signed with the same scribbled name: ‘A concerned neighbor.’ Turns out, it was just an overzealous delivery driver who had left his own note pad in the store and was frantically trying to track down where he’d misplaced it.

3. At Walgreens near the park, every afternoon around three o’clock, you could hear a strange humming noise coming from inside. No one knew where it came from or why, but soon everyone in town started listening for it. One day, an old delivery driver parked his truck outside and asked curiously, ‘What’s that buzzing?’ A neighbor shrugged, saying he’d never noticed anything unusual before. Suddenly, the humming stopped, and everyone looked at each other sheepishly—turns out, it was just the air conditioning kicking on.

4. At Walgreens in the suburbs, a neighbor exclaimed one day: ‘I just saw the pharmacist talking to himself—about my prescription!’ The pharmacist smiled and said, 'Oh, I was just explaining to myself why your medicine is so expensive!' The neighbor laughed it off, realizing that sometimes even pharmacists need a good laugh.