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Article: Wal-Mart Targets Chicago Market.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 29, 2003
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By Lorene Yue, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 29--Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which became the world's largest company by building stores in suburban and rural areas, plans to open its first Chicago location in 2005.The Bentonville, Ark.-based discounter has submitted plans to build a store at 1657 N. Kilpatrick Ave. The West Side location will place the global retailer near the Washington S...uare shopping center now home to Cub Foods, Old Navy, AJ Wright and Children's Place.
If Chicago city officials OK the 150,000-s...uare-foot store, the move would give Wal-Mart locations in all but two of the nation's top-10 urban ...