I have another post below this one, in response to all of your posts, but I had to comment on this:

Eighteen months after the Chicago City Council torpedoed a South Side Wal-Mart, 24,500 Chicagoans applied for 325 jobs at a Wal-Mart opening Friday in south suburban Evergreen Park, one block outside the city limits.

The new Wal-Mart at 2500 W. 95th is one block west of Western Avenue, the city boundary.

Of 25,000 job applicants, all but 500 listed Chicago addresses, said John Bisio, regional manager of public affairs for Wal-Mart.

25,000 people applying for 325 jobs? That's only a 1.3% acceptance rate! Wow! That is nuts! Wal-Mart has a bad rap in some circles these days, but boy do people want to work there!
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 1/26/2006 05:14:00 PM