{"id":282248,"date":"2025-10-06T18:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282248\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:21:16","slug":"walgreens-closing-office-space-in-old-post-office-building-in-chicago-as-of-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282248\/","title":{"rendered":"Walgreens closing office space in Old Post Office building in Chicago as of January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Walgreens to be acquired by private equity firm in $10 billion deal <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f8abc01faf32f5f822087973260349ba-0-1741306640833.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/walgreens-to-be-acquired-by-private-equity-firm-in-10-billion-deal\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Walgreens to be acquired by private equity firm in $10 billion deal<\/p>\n<p>          00:22<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walgreens said it will close its office space in Chicago&#8217;s Old Post Office building.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Monday, the company said it remains headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we renew our focus on our stores and customer experience, we have made the decision to exit our office space at the Old Post Office in January 2026,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/sycamore-partners-walgreens-acquisition-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">recently finalized a deal to be acquired by private equity firm Sycamore Partners<\/a> that is estimated to be worth around $10 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Walgreens, like its rivals, has been struggling with thin prescription reimbursement, persistent theft, and rising operating costs, among other challenges. <\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/walgreens-store-closings-pharmacy-deserts\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">fall of 2024, the company announced it would close 1,200 stores<\/a> over the course of three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please note: The above video is from a previous, related report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      The Associated  Press<\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/cbs-chicago-team\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Chicago  Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">The CBS Chicago team covers breaking news, weather, groundbreaking investigations, and dedicated community reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walgreens to be acquired by private equity firm in $10 billion deal Walgreens to be acquired by private&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,65813],"class_list":{"0":"post-282248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-walgreens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115328613660680567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}