[PGR88]

East Garfield and Englewood neighborhoods are ground zero for Chicago’s murder and crime spree.

[gr8eman]

State Representative Melissa Conyears-Ervin and other elected officials stood in front of a CVS store at Madison and Kedzie Sunday morning to denounce the move.

Of coursed they all volunteered to work there to keep the store open, right?

[windsorknot]

Alderman Jason Ervin, said the case was a travesty and that it amounts to theft.

But there was certainly no theft in Ferguson.

[StAntKnee]

Story does not mention number of robberies. So I’m pretty sure there were none.

[Dr. Sivana]

They got off easy. New Haven gave Macy’s $10 million to stay in downtown New Haven. They stayed for two or three years and then left once the ink on the check was dry.

[Celtic Conservative]

Never trust a woman with a hyphenated last name.

CC

[mewzilla]

Caterpillar should be paying very close attention to this....

[eyeamok]

Just keep voting for Demonrats, everything on the plantation will be fine.

[VanDeKoik]

“State Representative Melissa Conyears-Ervin and other elected officials stood in front of a CVS store at Madison and Kedzie Sunday morning to denounce the move.”

But had no time to stand in front of the crooks and thugs that make the move a necessity to denounce them.

[Mr. K]

Successful businesses don;t close.

Why are they closing? This author seems to have left that out.

Also, this is what happens when the government gives ‘tax breaks’ to one company without giving it to all companies. The ma and pa store closed, and now this one is closing probably AFTER pocketing a nice chunk of government money.

[napscoordinator]

hmmmmm. Stop selling cigarettes wasn’t as popular as they thought I guess.

[TheDon]

Leftists don’t like it when Atlas Shrugs.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And if the dumb city had not given tax breaks to CVS, Mom and Pop might still be open.

[stylin19a]

They stopped selling drugs on the corner in that neighborhood ? who knew ?

[stylin19a]

12 Pharmacies within a mile ?

http://www.yellowpages.com/east-garfield-park-chicago-il/pharmacies

[Obadiah]

As far as I know, Alderman Jason Ervin is free to put up the capital and take the risk and open a pharmacy in his own district. Right?

[C19fan]

Ervin said Chicago gave the drugstore $1 million in tax breaks

Probably CVS lost more than that amount in shoplifting and robberies.

[Grams A]

Believe Soros has an interest in CVS???

[Vendome]

Pursuit of happiness....

[mountn man]

Ervin said Chicago gave the drugstore $1 million in tax breaks to open at the East Garfield Park location about five years ago.

Do the math.

If AFTER $1 million in tax breaks, the company is losing money at the store, they'd be losing even more money BEFORE the tax breaks.

If the company were making money at the store, they'd keep it open.

Of course politicians, especially liberal politicians, that caters to a low educated demographic, can't understand this.