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The store, which will be located at 3 W. Chicago Ave. in the new One Chicago high-rise, will open on April 27. The store will be nearly twice the square footage of an existing Whole Foods located a couple of blocks away at 30 W. Huron St., according to a spokesperson for the chain. The Huron Street store will close.
The permanent closure will mark the end of a century-old, family-owned business, as its third-generation owner, Norman Dinkel Jr. plans to retire, longtime employee Joan Elias told the Tribune on Tuesday. The family has overseen operations at the beloved neighborhood institution for four generations.
Lincolnwood may also be getting an Amazon Fresh store. Richard Tucker, the developer of a multi-use site at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Touhy Avenues, said last July that an Amazon Fresh store would be part of the mix in the yet-to-be-built development, which sits on the site of the former purple hotel. At that time, Tucker said Amazon had signed a lease for the new development, called District 1860.
Dan Montgomery, president of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, speaks during a rally for striking Proviso High School District 209 teachers, counselors, social workers and librarians outside Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy March 4, 2022, in Forest Park. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
The proposal is facing pushback from the River North Residents Association, a 22,000-member nonprofit neighborhood advocacy group, which sent a letter in December to Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th, Ald. Brendan Reilly, 42nd, and Ald. Brian Hopkins, 2nd, expressing concern that the casino would exacerbate noise, traffic congestion and crime.
In this Nov. 28, 2017 photo a Hertz rental car logo rests on the front of a Hertz location, in Boston. Hertz is planning to buy up to 65,000 electric vehicles from Swedish premium electric car maker Polestar over the next five years as it looks to boost its electric vehicle rental fleet. Financial terms were not disclosed. The vehicles are expected to be available in Europe in the spring and in North America and Australia later this year. The announcement on Monday, April 4, 2022 comes more than five months after Hertz said that it will buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla. (Steven Senne/AP)
Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors, one day after it was disclosed that the Tesla CEO took a 9% stake in the social media platform. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it entered into an agreement with Musk on Monday, April 4, that will give the billionaire a seat on its board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting. (Susan Walsh/AP)
Staten Island-based Amazon.com Inc distribution center union organizer Chris Smalls, center, wearing baseball cap, celebrates with union members after getting the voting results to unionize workers at the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, in New York, Friday, April 1, 2022. (Eduardo Munoz Avarez/AP)
FILE – This Oct. 26, 2017 file photo shows the corporate logo of LG Electronics in Goyang, South Korea. U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into electric and hybrid vehicle batteries, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, after seven automakers issued recalls for defects that can cause fires or stalling. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers more than 138,000 vehicles with batteries made by LG Energy Solution of South Korea. (Lee Jin-man/AP)
“Eviction has immense collateral consequences,” said Debbie Reznick senior program officer at Polk Bros. Foundation, which is funding the Chicago Bar Foundation’s evaluation, in a statement. “The displacement and instability caused by the eviction process can exacerbate physical and mental health issues, disrupt children’s educations, impact job performance, and ultimately lead to illness, unemployment, and homelessness. Learnings from the evaluation of the Right to Counsel pilot program will inform efforts to expand and sustain legal representation and other supportive services for tenants facing eviction.”