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• The Chicago Sun Times reports that Walmart is slated to open its second supercenter within the city limits today, a 157,000 square foot store in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.

As the story notes, “The Chatham store will be Wal-Mart’s second supercenter in Chicago and its fifth location overall. The first full-sized store — since it was converted to a supercenter — is located in Austin. There’s also a Wal-Mart Express across the street from the Chatham supercenter, a Wal-Mart express in Wrigleyville and a Neighborhood Market at Presidential Towers in the West Loop ... Later this year, Wal-Mart plans to open: the Pullman supercenter; Neighborhood Markets in Lakeview and Auburn-Gresham and Wal-Mart Express stores in West Englewood and River North.”
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