How Wal-Mart Finally Broke the Chicago Barrier
(Chicago Sun Times) — An Olympic dream denied, with no other job- and revenue-generator on the horizon. Aldermen weary of being squeezed from both sides. A retailing behemoth thwarted in other cities desperate to advance its urban strategy.
All of those factors — and a site change to a Far South Side ward whose alderman is more popular than his Chatham colleague — helped to bring the long-running Wal-Mart saga to a successful conclusion.
