Jewel-Osco

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  Al Kuehnast

  Jul 3, 2026
  4.0
  These art works are found on the North wall of a Jewel-Osco store building at Clark and Division streets. Ernest Hemingway had a strong connection to Chicago because he was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb just west of the city. His early years in the Chicago area helped shape his development as a writer, and he later lived in Chicago as a young adult, where he met his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and became involved with literary circles that influenced his career. Ernest Hemingway is best known as one of America’s most influential writers, celebrated for his clear, concise writing style and powerful stories about war, adventure, love, and human courage. His most famous works include The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Sun Also Rises. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, and his writing had a lasting impact on modern literature. James Baldwin’s connection to Chicago is primarily through the city’s recognition of his literary and civil rights legacy. Chicago honors Baldwin through the Legacy Walk and other cultural institutions that celebrate his impact as one of America’s most influential writers and intellectuals. Baldwin is best known for his powerful novels, essays, plays, and speeches that explored race, identity, equality, and human dignity in the United States. His most famous works include Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni’s Room, and The Fire Next Time. As a writer and civil rights activist, Baldwin became a leading voice for racial justice and was also one of the first major American authors to address LGBTQ+ themes openly in his work. Upton Sinclair’s connection to Chicago comes from his research in the city’s meatpacking district and stockyards, where he investigated the harsh working and sanitary conditions faced by immigrant laborers. His experiences in Chicago inspired The Jungle (1906), a novel that exposed unsafe practices in the meatpacking industry and drew national attention to food safety issues. Sinclair is best known as an author, investigative journalist, and social reformer whose writings challenged corruption and poor working conditions in American industry. The Jungle helped spark public demand for reforms and contributed to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Ayn Rand’s connection to Chicago comes from her arrival in the United States in 1926, when she first stayed with relatives in Chicago after leaving Soviet Russia. The city served as her gateway to America, and she spent time there before moving on to pursue her writing career. Rand is best known as a novelist and philosopher who developed the philosophy of Objectivism, which emphasizes reason, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Her most famous works, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), became bestselling novels and had a significant influence on debates about politics, economics, and personal freedom. Betty Smith had no major direct connection to Chicago in the way that some other American authors did; she is most closely associated with Brooklyn, New York, where she was born and raised. Her experiences growing up in a working-class immigrant neighborhood inspired her most famous novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Betty Smith is best known for this bestselling coming-of-age story, which follows a young girl named Francie Nolan as she grows up in poverty while pursuing education and opportunity. The novel is celebrated for its realistic portrayal of family life, hardship, resilience, and the immigrant experience in early 20th-century America, and it remains a classic of American literature.
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  Darren Logan

  Jun 26, 2026
  5.0
  Great store!
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  Kristen N

  Jun 24, 2026
  1.0
  There always seems be only one person working at the deli counter, so expect to wait 20+ minutes even without a long line.
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  Katherine Faulman

  Jun 3, 2026
  5.0
  My FIL (87 yrs) left his Ipad in the shopping cart. When I called to ask them to check about it, thinking it was long gone...the very nice customer service rep let me know it was waiting for me to pick it up. I did so, and I just wanted to say, how nice it is to have honest and friendly people that are part of the Jewel family. I really appreciated the care he took with my FIL 's Ipad and thank you to whoever the person was who turned it in.
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  BGTG X3

  May 19, 2026
  1.0
  The Starbucks in there is HORRENDOUS. No one is ever at the counter, and if someone is they have there they have a attitude. Jewel staff continuously have to call over the intercom for an employee to service customers who have been waiting over 8 mins

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