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Exploring a Massive Walgreens Headquarters

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Today, we are exploring a massive Walgreens Headquarters in the Midwest. This place closed down a couple years ago and was emptied out. I think they are getting ready to sell the place or demolish it. The owner has added 24/7 security after they found all the graffiti inside.
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@mistierr 11 месяцев назад

as a walgreens employee, it’s reassuring knowing that the abandoned headquarters is in better shape than some of the stores i’ve worked at!!

@PleaseDoNotLOL 11 месяцев назад

Have you seen the the downtown post office? Lmfao $$$

@krist6687 7 месяцев назад

Funny I was thinking the same and I am a former employee

@hisaffliction2138 6 месяцев назад

As a former SL I’m so glad they got fed everyday for free I’m sure and had Starbucks, bless their overpaid hypocritical souls. This is the reason we weren’t/ aren’t paid enough by this company.

@hisaffliction2138 6 месяцев назад

@@PleaseDoNotLOLwhat about it? It’s been bought up by a NY firm, being redeveloped and Uber and Ferrara Pan are two of its in wait tenants.

@xxsheolxx 6 месяцев назад

As a Walgreens customer, it's reassuring knowing that he is receiving the same amount of customer service as I do when I enter a Walgreens store. XD

@akimikoking1543 Год назад

You should collaborate with this channel called the Proper People! They also explore abandoned buildings all over the world.😊 I’m pretty sure they have explored abandoned buildings in the Midwest as well.

@Jason-rn4jk Год назад

The proper people aren’t very proper. To each their own.

@truant6910 Год назад

@@Jason-rn4jk they seem pretty proper?

@gracieg7601 Год назад

Weird the lights are still on!

@benji5777 11 месяцев назад

@@Jason-rn4jk Not very proper? How so? There some kind of urbex etiquette they routinely break or what.

@srdgjkhvdfhsedfkjd-x5m 8 месяцев назад

Yes they should 😎

@virginsuicide9 Год назад

Very backrooms!

@caitlinochs123 Год назад

My friend has been in there. He works at the HQ down the street.

@BLaw707 8 месяцев назад

Must be in Deerfield, Illinois.

@life_art_magick_portrate 11 месяцев назад

Wouldn't be bad to turned in to apartment complex

@operationurbex Год назад

Very clean and power still in. Fresh find! Nice job!

@hughbetcha6922 28 дней назад

This building is a monument to all of the workers that spent countless hours and money of their own to drive to Walgreens Headquarters to help some rich guys get richer. I hope those workers are now at home, safe and productive as I'm sure most of them are.

@IIVIIJI 16 дней назад

Most of the workers in this building were in IT and from India. Last I heard they moved a lot downtown and others work remote. Walgreens still has other buildings in that area.

@EpimethiusPSN 7 дней назад

@@IIVIIJI in 2007 Walgreens started replacing ALL its people with people in India. So, it is not surprising that the place sits empty. Kind of shocked that it didn't happen long before this. I worked here for 5 years until 2010 and the plan was to cut our floor from about 30 developers to 5 managers that would only coordinate with people from India. We were told they were going to hire 10 people in India for each employee replaced. I left because I didn't like replacing everyone like this. I also had no desire to become a babysitter and no longer a developer. I loved coding then and I still do today.

@majortwit Месяц назад

I’d not enter an abandoned elevator, let alone operate one that’s not maintained. Sometimes even fail-safe brakes fail horribly, or the unit stalls between floors, etc. Nobody hears your screams in abandoned places 😢

@melvinmelvin2165 10 месяцев назад

No way you took the elevator wtf

@Terxitos 6 месяцев назад

The sound of nothingness in a abandoned complex music to my ears

@NU3V0ssed 5 месяцев назад

One thing I’ve always wondered about the places that he explores is how do they fall into abandonment

@majortwit Месяц назад

Walgreens merged into a new company called Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. about ten years ago.

@IIVIIJI 16 дней назад

@@majortwitthey actually acquired this building during that time. Since then they moved a lot of IT downtown and some work remote. They still have other buildings in that area, including the original headquarters down the road.

@kevinkuenn5733 10 дней назад

@IIVIIJI I worked in this building 20 years ago, they acquired it a hell of a lot longer ago than that. I can't speak for all the other departments that used to work in there, but my department was outsourced overseas, and I imagine that was the case for most folks who worked in the building. They've been trying to sell the building for over a decade, but no takers apparently.

@zzoinks Год назад

14:43 they left stewie behind!

@EpimethiusPSN 7 дней назад

I worked at Walgreens HQ until 2010 but, NOT in this building. I had a Stewie bobble head on top of my cube to help me find it that I left behind. It was, not this one though. Weird coincidence.

@skip686 Год назад

WinXP, and the computer still on and running, haha.

@pnkflyd66 10 дней назад

I can’t get my head around the fact that it was still XP and not something more current.

@tylerw7064 10 дней назад

i got an ad for walgreens in the middle of this 😂

@moparmadman2544 11 месяцев назад

This reminds me of The Backrooms. Excellent explore, kind of creepy with everything so empty.

@FordMustangFoxbody 6 месяцев назад

There has to be an executive office suite in their somewhere.

@IIVIIJI 16 дней назад

It's in a different building. There were about 10 buildings in that area that Walgreen occupied. They still have their original headquarters down the road.

@pilotgrrl1 Месяц назад

I worked there for 7 months. It was the most boring job I've ever had so i escaped at my earliest opportunity.

@lidsman2221 25 дней назад

Pretty cool. I was surprised to see that they did not have a mockup store in there. A lot stores like Walgreens and CVS will put in a fake store just to try new things in before rolling it out to the real stores.

@IIVIIJI 16 дней назад

That's in Lincolnshire. This is just one group of buildings that Walgreens once occupied. They still have others. At one point there were about 10 buildings in that area they were in, including their original headquarters down the road that they are still in.

@clearbluesky55 Год назад

Windows XP?? 🤔

@ariarose3089 Год назад

Keep up the good work, love what you do on your videos ❤ I'm late to this channel, But this is what I love, RU-vidrs who explore abandoned buildings. (Its like an adventure for me like I'm actually there too. Sadly, a good portion of youtubers have shifted from exploring abandon things to demon and ritual stuff. (Something I'd rather not watch).

@Bronzesamurai07 7 месяцев назад

Zombie apocalypse I can hold up I can hold up in that.

@zen-sufi 6 месяцев назад

I was JUST thinking this.

@kylaporter7206 4 месяца назад

it would be so hard to cut off every entrance tho😭

@dailythenoob Год назад

Gotta take an under door tool with you next time 😁

@GabrielRendonJuarez Год назад

A what?????

@joefranks4235 6 дней назад

Is this place in Palatine Illinois? I was working there as a contractor for a very short time. I was brought in to replace people in their IT department on their AS400's. Something I had gone through myself with another employer. I hated it there and left. Walgreens ended their contract with my company shortly thereafter.

@robertmailhos8159 Год назад

They left the power on 😮😅

@nickpatrick1636 Год назад

Some times they get left on

@robertmailhos8159 Год назад

@@nickpatrick1636 that is the truth

@Jason-rn4jk Год назад

Sometimes it turns itself on, electricity feeds off darkness, and sometimes it feeds off itself electricity producing illumination with electricity.

@robertmailhos8159 Год назад

@@Jason-rn4jk okay thanks for the info on this matter young man 👍😎

@BostonBruinsOWN Год назад

Owner probably wants to make sure the building is okay. During winter heat probably has to be set low so pipes don’t burst.

@hisaffliction2138 6 месяцев назад

At first I thought the cops were just sitting their as a speed trap for the tuners, etc. Now I know why they’re really chilling on the property at 1AM when I’m going grocery shopping 😂

@Pixycstixs Год назад

Weird how both the Walgreens signs don’t have the W lol

@RabbitWatchShop 7 месяцев назад

It’s actually not weird at all. The W alone represents the brand. Someone either intended to use it for a personal decoration, or intended on selling it. You don’t really need the rest of the letters

@LuukeFhrue 4 месяца назад

I grew up in blue island right by this place. Always wondered about it

@handle2101 Год назад

Good video.

@CrispeeCrisps15 5 месяцев назад

Why do all lights work

@ТІР Год назад

visiting again in 2023

@steveoTHEGREAT 7 месяцев назад

HOW DO YOU FIND THESE PLACES??? They look untouched and thats soooo hard to come by now days. Usually something lasts untill someone cares about it. Once its left teenagers smash everything possible to smash

@namebrandrobots1248 Год назад

All this room and ppl will be sleeping outside tonight..

@Supremeteamcaptain Год назад

Those people you’re white knighting for would trash this place into oblivion and probably still sleep outside of it lol

@tranzco1173 9 месяцев назад

Ask Walgreens to let homeless people sleep in their huge multi-million dollar building, see what they say. Homeless people wreck the place. They need real homes, not abandoned corporate offices. Can you imagine the smell, violence, drugs, sex, piss, shit, and overdosed dead people lying around. You would need 100 social workers and 10 cops just to maintain order, so not cheap just stupid.

@c0t0d0s7 Месяц назад

“Smell, violence, drugs, sex, piss, shit, and overdosed dead people lying around” would make a great name for a band.

@gracieg7601 Год назад

How many stories is this building? Gosh it’s huge! Amazing! I haven’t seen any bathrooms! Lol I wouldn’t get in thst elevator! Lol crazy the computers still work!

@coryholliday8473 10 месяцев назад

It’s almost like Simeon still works in there

@IIVIIJI 16 дней назад

I think they are 4 stories, not counting the basement, but it's also a group of 3 or 4 connected buildings. The old sign called it something like the Walgreens corporate "campus".

@richardfleer1905 Месяц назад

This looks like the complex on Lake Cook Road. I've driven past there numerous times. I'm not a bit surprised. SARS 2 really closed everything up for good!!!!

@kevinkuenn5733 10 дней назад

That building has been closed for over a decade now, Covid had nothing to do with it, if that's what you were even referring to.

@dou8letap82 6 месяцев назад

How is it abandoned if the powers still on? Straight up B&E right here..

@thisisbullshit.2074 Год назад

Who is paying for these lights???

@tranzco1173 9 месяцев назад

An old lady named Sally. Walgreens. So Walgreen customers.Who else? They still own the building.

@tatianapereira703 5 месяцев назад

This looks very creepy

@steveoTHEGREAT 7 месяцев назад

Do you have permission to be here? Bc if there paying to keep the lights on then they def have security so its not fully abandoned

@c0t0d0s7 Месяц назад

Wrong.

@andrewmcgill829 7 месяцев назад

I wonder why walgreens left this place??

@joejonas3684 7 месяцев назад

I live in the area by their HQ, this isn’t their main headquarters which is still in operation right down the street. They had extra office space that they got rid of post COVID because a lot of their employees work from home so they don’t need to pay for all the extra office space

@hikingvlogs5645 10 месяцев назад

why did they close this place

@tranzco1173 9 месяцев назад

It looks like a gross mall from 1986 and they are on their way to bankruptcy, closed 2000 stores.

@Mike-nice- Год назад

Backrooms

@skeetermcswagger0U812 6 месяцев назад

'Backrooms' Vibes

@tristan583 Год назад

This is in Deerfield right

@handle2101 Год назад

Yes

@A_A_Skates 6 месяцев назад

@OvertheGarage-wv1wn Месяц назад

Pretty low budget for a corporate HQ. Must be a regional or divisional HQ.

@kevinkuenn5733 10 дней назад

It was an extension of the main HQ. Across the street is the main HQ, which is still operational, and is very nice.

@codyhess5713 8 месяцев назад

Just a huge waste of space time and money

@tammygouletschrader8785 Год назад

Why did Walgreens move ?

@decayingmidwest Год назад

Either downsizing or a new facility

@Chunky246 Год назад

Most people still working from home? So many office spaces closing...

@jeffjay9350 Год назад

most of their employees working from home.

@fuzefpv5766 Год назад

There's whole new facility across the street is huge.

@joejonas3684 Год назад

The pandemic was a big part of it. I grew up in the area, they have an enormous campus! When COVID happened and people began working from home they realized they didn’t need certain staff to work in the office anymore. This part of the campus is sort of down the street more from the main headquarters campus so it made sense to downsize and they didn’t really need this part of the campus anymore. The rest of the campus is still very much in use today

@johantrenier1685 Год назад

Is this in Northwest Indiana?

@DuncanBM Год назад

north chicago suberbs, its like 5 mins from me

@joethefishguy3251 Год назад

@@DuncanBMwhere at?

@benjaminmendenhall4497 Месяц назад

Now 692 likes 😅

@MickBrown-wf3sd 10 месяцев назад

😂

@SandlotZoFaraway Месяц назад

He probably looking for cash to

@codyhess5713 8 месяцев назад

Who else wants to live there lol?

@BROKEN.WRENCH.GARAGE Год назад

69 likes 😅

@greentroll5234 6 месяцев назад

How is the power still on

@Nufsed-f5r 6 месяцев назад

I am so excited to visit the headquarters later this month 🫶🏼

@Brucifer2 Год назад

...why did Walgreens have a caged up area at the beginning? 🫨

@decayingmidwest Год назад

Storage

@sucrose7469 Год назад

Cage area at start was the mail room and when he went out of the mail room to the left that was End User Computing (Corp IT)

@tranzco1173 9 месяцев назад

It was common to have a cage for bad employees, punishment. I'm not kidding. You could be sent home without pay, or spend 6 hours in the cage. Happened to my brother.