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  • Chicagoans flock to Wal-Mart jobs

    01/26/2006 6:57:58 AM PST · by george76 · 40 replies · 1,804+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | January 26, 2006 | LESLIE BALDACCI
    Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits. The new Wal-Mart at 2500 W. 95th is one block west of Western Avenue, the city boundary. Of 25,000 job applicants, all but 500 listed Chicago addresses... "we saw a little bit of everything -- people who hadn't worked for a long time, people who saw an opportunity to do something with themselves. That's the information I got from applicants."