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Posted on 05/05/2026 5:44:49 PM PDT by Libloather
A Chicago alderman, incensed by the upcoming closure of a Walgreens store amid safety concerns, stated that the corporate retailer should be charged with "first-degree corporate abandonment."
Ald. William Hall, along with several community members, held a news conference Monday to voice their anger over the company's decision to close the location in Chicago’s 6th Ward in the Chatham neighborhood.
"Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment," Hall said. "It should be a crime, the way they're treating our elders. It should be a crime, the way they're treating our families."
The store is slated to close on June 4. Fox News Digital has reached out to both Hall's office and Walgreens for further comment.
In a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago-area-based pharmacy store chain cited theft and violent incidents as the primary factors behind its decision to close the store on S. Cottage Grove Ave.
"Despite a range of efforts, including previous operating adjustments, these ongoing safety challenges have made it increasingly difficult to maintain a secure environment for our team members and customers," the company said. "While this was not an easy decision, safety must remain our top priority."
Walgreens confirmed that employees at the location will be eligible to transfer to other stores.
Hall emphasized that the community isn't "begging" Walgreens to stay, but argued the company is in the wrong for leaving residents without a place to fill medical prescriptions. He warned that the closure would create a "medicine drought" for seniors and residents managing chronic health conditions.
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UM OK...
He should close his mouth and open his own drug store...........
it should be a crime to shoplift from Walgreens, but liberals made it legal.
This is the result.
He doesn’t understand anything about running a business.
We lost our local Walgreens a few years ago for the same reason - the whole store was being stolen and walked out the door.
It’s been inconvenient, but I understand it completely.
How about if the powers that be fix the crime in Chicago? Maybe that would work.
“It should be a crime, the way they’re treating our elders. It should be a crime, the way they’re treating our families.”
It IS a crime what this population has been doing to the store.
They could use “mob muscle” to force Walgreens to stay open.
It IS the Chicago way. Make them an offer they can’t refuse.
But, but, compassion!
I think Walgreens may be headed out of business, period.
Not just in Chi-Town or other high crime districts.
They’ve locked up much of their merchandise making it difficult to purchase — you have to find a clerk and they have very few
plus,
they’ve raised many prices so high it has become a (perverse, admittedly) pastime for folks to walk the aisles and just laugh, despondently, at the sky-high prices... sort of a contest to see who can find the most ridiculous price tag
it is a shame .... we always liked, relied on Walgreens
I miss the high trust society we once had.
First-Degree Corporate Abandonment — Concept and Recent Example
First-degree corporate abandonment is a term used in political and community advocacy to describe a situation where a corporation is accused of leaving a community without adequate alternatives, often due to safety concerns, economic hardship, or perceived neglect. It is not a formal legal category in U.S. law, but rather a rhetorical or policy label used to frame corporate decisions as harmful or criminal.
How It Works
The term combines:
Corporate abandonment — the act of a business closing or withdrawing from a community.
First-degree — a level of severity, implying the most serious form of abandonment, often with significant harm to vulnerable populations.
In practice, it is applied when:
A business closes a location in a neighborhood with high rates of crime, poverty, or health needs.
The closure disproportionately affects seniors, people with chronic illnesses, or low-income residents.
The community argues the company could have redesigned or repurposed the store instead of shutting it down.
There is a perceived lack of consultation or alternative solutions offered to residents.
Recent Example — Walgreens Chatham Closure
In May 2026, Chicago alderman William Hall accused Walgreens of committing “first-degree corporate abandonment” after announcing the closure of a Chatham neighborhood store on June 4 Fox News+1.
Reason given by Walgreens: Persistent theft and violent incidents made it unsafe to operate Fox News.
Community response: Residents and local leaders argued the closure would create a “medicine drought,” forcing seniors and patients with chronic conditions to travel farther for prescriptions MSN.
Alderman’s stance: He criticized the short notice (less than 30 days), lack of job transition support for public transit-dependent employees, and refusal to redesign the store The Post Millennial.
Possible legal angle: While no formal charges have been filed, Hall and others have called for the company to be prosecuted under this label, framing the closure as a crime against the community Fox News+1.
Broader Context
The term has been used in other high-profile cases, such as:
Walgreens closing multiple South Side locations in Chicago in recent years twitchy.com.
Advocates linking corporate exits from high-crime areas to systemic issues like retail crime and healthcare access disparities.
In summary: First-degree corporate abandonment is a political and advocacy term for the most severe form of corporate withdrawal from a community, often tied to safety, health, and economic impacts. The Walgreens Chatham case is a recent example where community leaders are using it to demand accountability and alternative solutions.
In other words, more made up fake news................
It should be a crime the way medicare insurers are treating seniors.
Forcing seniors to repeatedly call call centers, staffed with useless num nuts
Well, the city of Chicago is more than welcome to open their own giveaway store. Let them fund this fiasco
These clowns are SPECIAL! You create the circumstances for a daily crime spree; rampant illegal immigrants ferried in, Police force dilapidated and not supported by the CORRUPT public officials, sleazy judges, half ass prosecutors, and murders running amok!
Then blame the businesses that can no longer profitably operate in your shi+hole city, and are made to flee!
Nice try scumbags!! Enjoy the bed you’ve made.
You should be charged with Voter Ababdonment you Deadbeat Politician.
Chicago sucks and it’s bringing down America
“”Walgreens should be charged with first-degree corporate abandonment,””
Logic would dictate that all the city aldermen should be in prison in the first place for creating this dangerous city. Walgreens may be one the first dominoes to fall for protecting their own safety, good for them.
If that ever changes, perhaps the suffering businesses remaining in business there will stop fleeing for their very lives and livelihoods.
This is what should be expected for allowing decades of unconstitutionally racist gerrymandering of voting districts in order to facilitate Leftist theft, fraud, rampant criminality, a lying #EneMedia and soul crushing rule.
~Easy
He should ask Mamdani to how to build a Walgreens. It’ll cost 30 million bucks and be ready in 5 years.
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