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JB Pritzer chases McDonalds out of Chicago Land

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Posted by 3dc 2026-01-12 01:15|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1842 views ] Top
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1 Also Pritzer is constantly shaking them down for free McNuggets. Very annoying.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-01-12 05:54|| 2026-01-12 05:54|| Front Page Top

2 “The CEO of McDonald's making a stunning revelation to other corporate CEOs. Chicago crime is making it very hard to do business.

"Stunning revelation" to some possibly.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-12 07:26|| 2026-01-12 07:26|| Front Page Top

3 Totally predicable after this...

https://x.com/cheaprentalyeti/status/2010691365915509036?s=20

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2026-01-12 07:31|| 2026-01-12 07:31|| Front Page Top

4 This post got community noted. This is fake news.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-01-12 08:13|| 2026-01-12 08:13|| Front Page Top

5 Well ... corporate McDonalds began its move from ritzy Oak Brook to the West Loop back in 2018. Anyone with half a brain would have known how this was going to work out. I retired that year, after 15 years in Streeterville.

Muggings in our parking lots were common enough by then that we were posting guards in the elevator lobbies. They didn't help much. Shots had been fired at the Hospital building just before I came to work. And one of the Deans was mugged at 3:00 pm the way to her car.

Boy was I glad to be out of there.

Posted by ChicagoNorth 2026-01-12 08:30|| 2026-01-12 08:30|| Front Page Top

6 Pritzker dismisses ex-DC police officer's call for Americans to use Second Amendment to protect against ICE

Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-12 08:54|| 2026-01-12 08:54|| Front Page Top

7 #1 I thought of him as more the Hamburglar type.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-01-12 09:15|| 2026-01-12 09:15|| Front Page Top

8 McDonalds is still on Carpenter Street in the West Loop and it will be there for awhile.

The 'Hamburger University' is there also, a 6000 sq ft restaurant and cooking research facility and is open to the public and thousands visit it each day.

However, a number of franchises in the city of Chicago have closed in the past year.

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-01-12 09:16|| 2026-01-12 09:16|| Front Page Top

9 I worked in Oak Brook (not at McD’s) for a couple years. On occasion we would go to Corporate Burgers for lunch. Far better than your average franchise location.

Posted by Remoteman 2026-01-12 15:13|| 2026-01-12 15:13|| Front Page Top

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