Twenty years after Wheeling s Kmart store closed as part of the once-ubiquitous chain s slow demise, the site remains unused reduced to grass and an empty lot pocked with potholes. Why?
In its heyday, Kmart operated more than 2,300 stores across the country. On Saturday, there will be just three remaining. Many of the former Kmart sites in the North, West and Northwest suburbs have been redeveloped as other retailers, as a police station and even as a mass vaccination site. But several others await new uses.
Wheeling Trustee Joe Vito launched into an 11-minute diatribe against Cook County s COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination mandate during Monday s village board meeting.
A new, $3 million U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, expected to boost international travel and business in the Northwest suburbs, opened Tuesday at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling.
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