Wicker Park Walgreens housed in former bank set to close. Last chance for shoppers to visit the Vitamin Vault.
But the center of attention was a vitamin vault inside the bank’s cast-iron safe, where original lockboxes were used to display a wide assortment of nutritional supplements.The unusual shopping aisle became a magnet for locals and tourists alike, who often posted selfies on social media to mark their vault visits.
Walgreens' flagship store, located at North, Milwaukee and Damen avenues in Wicker Park, on Dec. 29, 2022. Opened in November 2012, the Walgreens-in-a-bank concept was a unique and ambitious undertaking for the Deerfield-based pharmacy giant. Renovating, preserving and repurposing the architecturally significant building turned the corner of happy and healthy into a neoclassical gem that also did eyebrow shaping.
The commission noted the bank conveyed “an image of permanence and security,” but its history has been far more ephemeral. The original bank was undone by a run on its assets during the Great Depression and the building housed a number of successor financial institutions before closing for good under the banner of Midwest Bank and Trust, which was shut down by the Illinois Department of Financial Professional Regulation in 2010.
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