I pulled my car into the remnants of a snow bank near the corner of Milwaukee and Paulina in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Further down the block and across the street, the curbside was bare. According to a volunteer at a storefront across from the mysterious snow bank, the snow was created as part of commercial shoot for department store giant, Wal Mart. The man that I spoke with, claimed that the commerecial used empty storefronts in the neighborhood to create a fake main street where shoppers rejected the high prices of mom and pop stores in favor of Wal Mart.<\/p>\n
Wal Mart, who has opened one store on the West side of Chicago is currently pushing to open an additional store on the city’s south side<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photo from strannik45 on Flickr<\/a> used respectfully without photographer’s permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I pulled my car into the remnants of a snow bank near the corner of Milwaukee and Paulina in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Further down the block and across the street, the curbside was bare. According to a volunteer at a storefront across from the mysterious snow bank, the snow was created as part of… Continue reading Wal Mart Controls Chicago Weather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[752],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-walmart-chicago","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-sc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}