Article: Pet adoption center is on hold

Walgreens may end up crowding out a pet adoption center which was to open this fall near Harlem and Touhy avenues.

Village trustees approved a permit for the combined North Suburban Animal Hospital and Wright-Way pet adoption shelter in August for a former Schaul's Catering building at 7136 W. Touhy Ave. The Wright-Way adoption center, planned to be one of the largest no-kill shelters in the state, was hoping to be running by as early as mid-October.

Asked why there still were no signs of a pet adoption center at the address, Wright-Way spokesman Todd Anderson said the property owner of that Schaul's building is now entertaining an offer to partition some of its land off to Walgreens, which ...

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