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Amala Ekpunobi

At Some Point You Have To Take Accountability…

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

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4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A Walgreens in Chicago is closing its doors due to rampant crime and violence in the area. Instead of holding their community and politicians accountable for this issue, the residents are blaming Walgreens. You can't make this up. Let's talk about it.


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0:00.0

A Walgreens in Chicago is closing its doors, citing rampant crime and theft, of course,

0:05.0

and now the residents in this town are blaming Walgreens for leaving and saying this should be

0:10.4

qualified as a corporate crime. The lack of accountability on this one is crazy. Let's talk about it.

0:15.4

Yeah, you better.

0:16.3

Yeah, you better. Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe.

0:25.6

You know, sometimes we have to look at our communities and say our communities have a problem,

0:29.6

and it's a problem that we need to fix.

0:31.6

And this story really exemplifies that.

0:34.6

Let's get into the news.

0:36.6

This Walgreens has been in the Chatham neighborhood for decades, a place where residents could walk and pick up their prescription. That will soon change, as Walgreens says, it's closing its doors for good. Do right by us. Thank you, right by us. They're making their message clear and known walking inside the Walgreens.

0:54.5

What do you mean? Do right by us. Do right by us. Do right by yourselves. Okay.

0:59.4

Your community members are robbing this Walgreens. They're making it unsafe for the workers of the

1:05.4

Walgreens. And guess what? The owners are going, well, it doesn't make sense for us to have this

1:10.1

store here. We are losing

1:11.6

more than we're gaining. And so we must leave as any business owner would do if they could do.

1:17.2

And here you are outside the streets saying, do right by us. Do right by yourselves.

1:22.5

Hold your community members accountable. 87th in Cottage Grove. They don't care about the well-being. It's not

1:28.2

their family that's on these meds. Walgreens recently announced it's closing its doors on the

1:32.6

Chatham neighborhood due to a higher level of theft and violent incidents, leaving the closest

1:37.3

location now more than a mile away. Daryl Smith says he relies on this Walgreens because

1:43.0

his 76-year-old mother had a lung transplant and takes 54 pills a day.

1:48.2

He says during his lunch break, he gets her medication from this Walgreens in the Sixth Ward.

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