Walgreens

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Walgreens on Main Street, customers started noticing something strange: every night around closing time, an old shopping cart would roll itself down the aisle and park itself near the cash register. One day, a delivery driver mentioned it in the break room, and soon everyone was talking about it. It became such a fixture that when the cart wasn’t there, customers asked where it was. Finally, one evening, an elderly gentleman walked in with a smile, pushing the cart himself and said, ‘I thought you might miss your friend.’ Turned out he was just a neighbor who loved practical jokes.

2. At Walgreens on Main Street, an elderly gentleman approached the counter and asked the pharmacist with a twinkle in his eye: ‘Do you have any special elixir for forgetting your shopping list?’ The pharmacist smiled knowingly and replied, 'We have just what you're looking for!' He reached under the counter and pulled out a small bottle labeled 'Memory Elixir.' The old man paid for it, took a sip, and immediately forgot everything except where he parked his car. As he walked out, a delivery driver asked curiously, 'What was that?' The man simply shrugged and said, 'Oh, nothing much—just some memory potion from Walgreens.'

3. At Walgreens in Old Town, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar during early morning deliveries. The parking lot seemed to fill with mysterious shopping bags just before dawn. Curious, he followed one bag and found it leading him to an empty house across the street. Turned out, a neighbor had left her grocery bags outside overnight for easy morning pickup. The delivery driver laughed, realizing his mystery was solved—just another quirky Chicago story.

4. At Walgreens on Main Street, a young mother rushed in with her crying baby. As she frantically searched for diapers, she kept hearing soft laughter from behind the shelves. Finally, an old lady appeared from around the corner and whispered, ‘Oh, don’t mind me, I was just counting how many diapers you needed.’ The mom burst out laughing, realizing it had been the boxes themselves making that funny noise all along.