{"id":4808,"date":"2025-06-22T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4808\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:55:11","slug":"are-any-illinois-kroger-stores-closing-what-to-know-after-recent-announcement-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4808\/","title":{"rendered":"Are any Illinois Kroger stores closing? What to know after recent announcement \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kroger, a nationwide grocery and pharmacy giant with several stores in Illinois, announced plans to close approximately 60 stores<\/a> nationwide over the next 18 months.<\/p>\n

According to TODAY.com, the news was first disclosed in their first quarter earnings report released Friday.<\/p>\n

Kroger did not immediately respond to TODAY.com’s request for a statement regarding the closures.<\/p>\n

The company’s earnings report says nearly 410,000 employees work to serve its over 11 million customers.<\/p>\n

The company did not specify which locations would close, suggesting that it will base its decision on long-term financial performance, store overlap and customer behavior.<\/p>\n

It is also unclear if the closures will only affect Kroger stores, or stores from chains that are owned by Kroger, such as Mariano’s, Food4Less, Ralph’s and Roundy’s.<\/p>\n

According to the company, all impacted employees will be offered positions at nearby locations.<\/p>\n

Though there are 25 Kroger locations in Illinois, the vast majority are located well outside the Chicago area, with Mariano’s stores in the Chicago area representing Kroger’s presence.<\/p>\n

The closest Kroger stores to the Chicago area include locations in Bourbonnais, Washington and Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kroger, a nationwide grocery and pharmacy giant with several stores in Illinois, announced plans to close approximately 60…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,6270],"class_list":{"0":"post-4808","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-retail"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114726182816632481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","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=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}