Pastors add pressure for more Walmart stores

The Chicago Defender reports:

The fight to get another Walmart built in the city has been intensified by a coalition of pastors and community activists who said Ald. Ed Burke (14th) has a “noose” around the neck of the South Side Chicago by holding back the proposed development of store on West 83rd Street.


Rev. Larry Roberts and about 200 pastors, who collectively represent about 100,000 congregants, have taken their message to Burke several times to no avail and now urge Mayor Richard M. Daley to flex his muscle to “make it happen.”


Roberts said it’s time for Burke to move the Walmart issue out of the City Council finance committee – which he chairs – so the Arkansas-based retail giant can proceed with building the store in Ald. Howard Brookins’ 21st Ward, and eventually in other areas on the South Side, particularly in the Englewood and Pullman communities.

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