Little Village's Discount Mall will stay open, see 'long overdue' upgrades
The improvements will include new building facades and roofs, a new surface parking lot, new lighting, new landscaping, and more.
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The improvements will include new building facades and roofs, a new surface parking lot, new lighting, new landscaping, and more.
The $100,000 grant will go to 25 small diverse-led businesses.
Chase is adamant its employees will never call, text or email customers asking for a password, or ask to send money to prevent fraud.
"If anybody has records, they want to sell, tapes, vintage toys, anything like that just so we could fill again ourselves again, is the most direct way to help us."
By 4 p.m., the main street was a ghost town as visibility went down significantly.
"This program has made me feel that the things that I want in life, you know, buying a house for my baby, having a stable career, it has made me feel that it's actually possible."
"A lot of the regional businesses, when they came to try to get their products on the shelves of some of these larger retailers, they had amazing products, but they didn't understand what it actually took to do it."
It's a good weekend to get some holiday shopping done as so many places are offering deals and discounts - especially when you can get those deals at places that are local here in Chicago.
Shoppers can swing by and purchase items from dozens of local vendors and artists.
Holiday shoppers are warming up to the idea of investing in small mom-and-pop shops in their local community.
