The only traditional grocery store in south suburban Calumet Park is closed, half the shopping center sits vacant and prospects for any quick solutions appear bleak.
A handwritten sign on the door of the recently shuttered Ultra Foods directs would-be shoppers to Strack & Van Til stores in Indiana, another chain owned by the bankrupt Central Grocers cooperative. Little good that will do the many low-income and elderly people, particularly those without cars, who for years did their shopping at Ultra…Please click here to read Greg Trotter’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.