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Curious City

An Aldi closes and a Chicago neighborhood is reeling from the impact

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8642 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Last year the Garfield Park Aldi closed after 30 years, leaving thousands of West Siders without a nearby grocery store where they can buy affordable, fresh produce or other staples. Now, the City of Chicago is considering purchasing the Aldi property to ensure it remains a grocery store. WBEZ reporter Linda Lutton and Curious City intern Asia Singleton head to the West Side neighborhood to find how the store’s closing is impacting residents — and what they’re doing about it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Testing, testing, one, two, three.

0:03.7

I think it sounds great.

0:04.9

Oh, this does sound really good.

0:06.1

You can hear everything.

0:08.7

So, yeah, let's talk about, yeah, why don't you introduce yourself?

0:13.1

Okay.

0:14.1

Hi, my name is Asia Singleton.

0:16.4

Should I mention that I'm an intern and then also just a resident of West Garfield Park?

0:20.4

Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, okay. Hi, it's me, Asia, Curious City's intern. And the other

0:26.4

person you just heard, that's WBZ reporter Linda Lutton. On this episode, we're answering a question

0:32.0

about Aldi, the grocery store. Well, one Aldi in particular. It's in West

0:37.1

Garfield Park on Chicago's west side. It's

0:39.5

shut down last October. There's still no word on what's to come for this now closed Aldi store.

0:44.7

This means the only major... Big story this afternoon. Right now, grocery store protests. People who live

0:50.0

and work in the West Garfield Park neighborhood say a long time...

0:53.0

Two, four, six, eight, Aldi shouldn't have been a...

0:56.1

...to fight the closure of the store on West Madison.

0:58.3

They say this will leave the neighborhood with even more of a food desert and will take away

1:02.8

a healthier, cheaper option for families.

1:05.5

But I didn't learn Aldi was closed from the news.

1:08.4

My family shopped at that Aldi.

1:10.4

I lived just a few blocks away.

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