Aldi is closing its grocery store in West Pullman, in a move a Far South Side alderman said leaves the neighborhood “without a single grocery store offering affordable, high-quality fresh food.” Aldi is the latest grocer to shutter a supermarket on the city’s South and West sides,

CHICAGO - Without warning, a popular grocery store has packed up and moved out of the city’s West Pullman neighborhood—forcing an existing food desert to grow wider. Aldi closed its store near 115th and Halsted on Sunday, Nov. 10 – one year after ...

The sudden closure of West Pullman’s Aldi, 821 W. 115th St., came one year after Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st) met with company representatives who “assured our community that they were here to stay,” Mosley said in a statement. At the time, Aldi leaders said they also intended to remodel and expand the store, Mosley said.

Meanwhile, the Batavia-based company opened a Forest Park location last week as it continues a national expansion plan, announced earlier this year.

The Aldi’s near 115th and Halsted was also the only remaining grocery store in the West Pullman neighborhood, and a popular place for local residents to shop. “Aldi’s is a place of good quality,” Harron said. “The fruit is fresh. The vegetables ...

Ronnie Mosley (21st) blasted Aldi after its West Pullman neighborhood store closed over the weekend. Mosley called the closure of the store at 821 W. 115th St. a betrayal. Some residents said they were completely caught off guard by the closure.

Aldi is in an all-out expansion blitz, but for some Chicago residents it feels like a different story. The discount grocery chain abruptly closed its store in West Pullman on Sunday, just six weeks after shutting down another location in Lincoln Park.