CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicagoans who live in the city’s West Pullman neighborhood pulled up to find their neighborhood grocery store closed for business this week.
“I was here a few days ago and I noticed it was empty,” Ebony Williams said. “I thought they didn’t restock or something like that, and now I came back to get some veggies, and it’s closed.”
The grocery store Williams referenced is the Aldi found near the intersection of West 115th Street and South Halsted Street, which closed suddenly on Sunday.
“I just shopped here like two days ago and I was telling my cousins, we were talking about all the stores that closed down,” Mantrise Harron said. “He’s like, ‘As long as they don’t close Aldi’s, we’re good,’ and look where we’re at.”
The closing happened right across the street from where a Walgreens once stood, before closing in 2023. The Aldi’s near 115th and Halsted was also the only remaining grocery store in the West Pullman neighborhood, and a popular place for local residents to shop.