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Guess Who's Closing Stores in Chicago Now

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 2/21/2024 3:31:26 PM

Chicago has a problem with retailers closing their doors, pulling up stakes, and getting the hell out of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. Without warning last week, a KFC franchisee "abruptly" shuttered three South Side locations. One outlet, located in Chatham, had been "undergoing renovations for months" when the franchise owner apparently just gave up and boarded up the windows instead. According to the same Fox 32 Chicago report, the Great KFC Vanishing came "less than one month after Cinema Chatham, a local movie theater, shut down." That closure also came without warning. Sixth Ward Alderman William Hall said, "A closed business is not only a sore eye,

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When your customers are getting robbed in the parking lot, it's time to board up and leave the area. Apparently Chicago residents don't mind this, since they keep voting for the same crapola!!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 2/21/2024 4:00:07 PM (No. 1662473)
OMG! What's next? Are the watermelon stores going to go out of business, too?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: formerNYer 2/21/2024 4:05:19 PM (No. 1662479)
Agree OP, it's like NYC, and LA and SF and the rest of the deep blue cities, you get what you vote for and Chicago has been voting for corrupt D'Rats even when the city has many more white people in it. I say "enjoy the suck!"
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Reply 3 - Posted by: IdSpud 2/21/2024 4:10:17 PM (No. 1662483)
I hate to be the one to say it, but this is what happens when you vote affirmative action rather than qualification.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Vaquero45 2/21/2024 4:16:07 PM (No. 1662486)
Oh, no! Now there’s going to be a “chicken desert” in the south side! Quick - call the NAACP!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: cThree 2/21/2024 4:25:10 PM (No. 1662491)
Progressive policies always, ALWAYS hurt the people they pretend to represent. This is a very sad story, but in its endless repetition it's just monotonous. And unchanging. The original reports (internal links here) make scant mention of crime. I guess we have to assume it's all racism. The local Alderman is going to have a Jobs Fair and 're-imagine' the space where stores used to be. As this point I'm getting morbidly curious how dismal will it get before it changes. What will the headline be? "The last 36 children in Chicago's South Side were shot this past week-end"? No, I kid myself. That wouldn't change a thing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Bogasso 2/21/2024 4:48:30 PM (No. 1662508)
Run, chicken, run! KFC, McDonald’s: “Fine, we’ll just take our business elsewhere.” Criminals: “No problem, the Dems will help us take our crime elsewhere too!”
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Newtsche 2/21/2024 5:13:56 PM (No. 1662520)
Underserved under served.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: chumley 2/21/2024 5:37:48 PM (No. 1662532)
The irony of KFC closing down and leaving a ghetto is hilarious. I dont go to KFC in my area anymore anyway. Prices have gone up way too high.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Venturer 2/21/2024 6:07:47 PM (No. 1662554)
We will al know that town is dead when the Popeyes closes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: volksford 2/21/2024 6:20:32 PM (No. 1662562)
Now ...you see what you have done......."No Chicken for You "
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 2/21/2024 6:36:57 PM (No. 1662572)
NO KFC? What will they do?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DiegoDude 2/21/2024 7:09:49 PM (No. 1662594)
Guess that leaves Popeyes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 2/21/2024 7:32:43 PM (No. 1662605)
I don't care where you live or what race you claim, KFC is too expensive.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: rochow 2/21/2024 9:21:27 PM (No. 1662663)
When you deal with animals it's best to move into more civilized 'hoods'.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: mifla 2/22/2024 5:40:59 AM (No. 1662813)
Liberals are so stupid. Soon, they will be driving 100 miles for food.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: coldborezero 2/22/2024 8:00:16 AM (No. 1662888)
Generally speaking, the chief “oppressors” of blacks are most certainly other blacks. They have a long history of fouling their own nest. They rob, rape and assault their own black neighbors. To even notice this FACT is racist. White people should just leave blacks alone to do what they do. Stay away from blacks. They are toxic.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Strike3 2/22/2024 10:06:27 AM (No. 1662990)
Closing down fried chicken joints is serious, like a crime against humanity but definitely racist. Mayor Brandon is a candidate for worst mayor in America but he has so much competition that there is not a clear winner.
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