CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADI0) -- Activists and elected officials are trying to fight the planned closure of a CVS pharmacy in the Little Village neighborhood.
The store is on the 2600 block of South Pulaski. Little Village resident Raoul Contreras, a college professor, said it’s not going to change his life that much, but it will for many others.
“The closing of this pharmacy is personally an irritant, just an irritant. But this is not reality to the great majority of Little Village residents.”
He noted the next closest CVS is in Cicero, a mile-and-a-half or two bus rides away And many residents do not have cars.
Alderman Michael Rodriguez is asking CVS to reconsider what he said is " business decision" to close the store.
“The fact is our neighborhood was the highest raw number of COVID positive cases of any zip code in the state of Illinois.”
A retired physician, Dr. Howard Ehrman, noted that, because we’re still under a public health emergency, the governor or the city’s Public Health Commissioner could order CVS to keep the store open.
"Those that are highest risk for COVID and death now are going to die because this store is closing," he said.
A CVS spokesperson told WBBM it was a “difficult decision.”
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