Check back for more information regarding the groundbreaking. Visit http://www.walmartchicago.com if you are interested in a postion with Walmart. Are youiInterested in becoming a vendor of Walmart? Check back to see when the vendors meeting for Walmart will be taking place in the 21st Ward. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname="Walmart Update"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://21wdo.com/?p=509";  Read More →

Source: Fran Spielman | Chicago Sun-TimesRAN SPIELMAN After authorizing just one Wal-Mart in the last six years, the City Council has now signed off on two in the pat month — with more to follow as part of the retailer’s $1 billion Chicago expansion. The 41 to 4 vote was a long-awaited victory for Ald. Howard Brookins (21st), who had waged a six-year quest for a Wal-Mart, only to be leapfrogged... 

The Chicago City Council’s Zoning Committee on Thursday, June 24, 2010 was expected to vote on bringing a second Walmart to the city. It would be in the Pullman Park neighborhood. Anthony Beale is the Alderman there, and he joined us. WATCH: Beale: We Expect Walmart Votes a2a_config.linkname="Beale: We Expect Walmart Votes (VIDEO)"; a2a_config.linkurl="http://21wdo.com/?p=268"; a2a.init("page");  Read More →

SOURCE: MyFoxChicago.com Walmart has reached a deal with the City of Chicago to open about 30 new stores over the next few years. The development comes after years of wrangling with unions, who wanted Walmart to offer higher pay and better benefits. Walmart has agreed to a starting wage of $8.75/hour, 50 cents more than the state minimum wage. The new stores will be built with union labor. And the... 

Plans to build a second Walmart in Chicago are finally moving forward. A City Council committee approved the measure Thursday. From the beginning the proposal for a Walmart Supercenter on the far South Side has pitted the company and community groups against labor unions who said the retailer didn’t pay a “living wage.” But Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon,... 

Chicago is home to a single Walmart store and the battle to build more has gone on for years. Local union leaders have expressed concerns about salaries and benefits offered by the retailer. But some have argued the city can’t afford to pass on the jobs that Walmart would create and the tax revenue stores would generate. On Thursday a deal was announced to build a second store in Chicago’s... 

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has won the support of dozens of church ministers in its long-running battle to expand in Chicago, a sign of how the recession has softened skepticism of the retailer in a community desperate for jobs. The ministers, most of them African-Americans together representing thousands of congregants, are pressuring the city council to grant approval for a Wal-Mart “supercenter”—a... 

Chicago should open its arms to Wal-Mart just as the suburbs do, Mayor Richard Daley said today. “These questions are not debated in the suburban area,” he said. “They are never even talked about.” The mayor was responding to a failed attempt by Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, the influential Finance Committee chairman, to force the mega-retailer and other smaller operators to pay a higher minimum...