About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At dawn, when most Walgreens were still quiet, a delivery driver noticed something peculiar in the parking lot. Curious, he approached and saw an old man slowly pushing a shopping cart filled with empty bottles. ‘Morning,’ said the driver. The man looked up, smiled sheepishly and replied, ‘Just doing my morning routine.’ Turned out, he was collecting recyclables for extra cash. A regular Walgreens fixture, it seemed.
2. Late one night, while stocking shelves in the backroom, an employee heard an odd announcement over the intercom: ‘Attention customers and staff—please be advised that our new self-checkout scanner can now detect if you’re wearing socks with sandals.’ Curious, a regular customer asked aloud, 'Does it also know when I’m wearing my lucky underwear?' The next day, everyone brought their mismatched outfits to test the scanner, turning Walgreens into a fashion show. It was just another late-night adventure at the pharmacy.
3. Late one morning, as a delivery driver unloaded boxes into the back room, he caught sight of something unusual—a small, dusty shelf filled with bottles labeled only in pencil. Curious, he picked up an old bottle marked ‘Cough Syrup’ and read the note scribbled on the side: ‘For Mr. Johnson’s cat.’ The driver laughed out loud—Mr. Johnson was allergic to cats! That evening, when he mentioned it to his neighbor, she just smiled and said, “Oh, that’s been there for years. They always forget to take it down.”
4. At midnight, when the streets of Chicago were silent, a delivery driver pulled up to Walgreens and noticed an unusual glow coming from behind the closed doors. Curious, he peered inside through the window and saw a pharmacist mixing jellybeans in the prescription bottles. A regular came in, asked for his usual medicine, and left with a bag full of colorful candies instead. The next morning, everyone in the neighborhood was talking about the ‘miraculous’ new flavor of aspirin.