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    Mayor Lightfoot Pleads With Walmart, Other Retailers To Not Abandon Chicago

    CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Mayor Lightfoot said she's hopeful major retailers will reopen the Chicago stores that were looted or otherwise damaged during protests surrounding George Floyd's killing by police in Minnesota. But, she's unsure of one of the biggest.

    Mayor Lightfoot said she was on a conference call with Walmart and other major retailers that had stores looted or heavily damaged during the unrest in Chicago. She said she pleaded with them to not abandon Chicago.

    "I think in the case of Walmart, what they were focused on was assessing the damage. They are doing an effort to donate fresh produce, to the extent of what's left so it doesn't perish, and other perishables, and they are taking their time, as I would expect."

    There were earlier reports that Walmart expected to rebuild all stores trashed by looters and vandals, but company officials later said they would open some stores and would not say which ones...

    Mayor Lightfoot Pleads With Walmart To Not Abandon Chicago | WBBM-AM

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    She did nothing to quell the riots and destruction in Chicago, why would they stay when there was no protection offered?


    This was someone else's comment on Facebook:

    Wow, just wow. We will allow rioters to destroy your businesses and hurt your profits and we will raise your taxes to pay to rebuild and to make up for the shut down deficits, but please don't leave us. This sounds like the pleading of an abusive spouse.

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