Exploring a Massive Walgreens Headquarters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- 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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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!!
Have you seen the the downtown post office? Lmfao $$$
Funny I was thinking the same and I am a former employee
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The proper people aren’t very proper. To each their own.
@@Jason-rn4jk they seem pretty proper?
Weird the lights are still on!
@@Jason-rn4jk Not very proper? How so? There some kind of urbex etiquette they routinely break or what.
Yes they should 😎
I worked there for 7 months. It was the most boring job I've ever had so i escaped at my earliest opportunity.
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.
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.
@@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.
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 😢
Must be in Deerfield, Illinois.
I used to work for one of Chicago's biggest general contractors - Walgreens couldn't spend the $ fast enough on the Deerfield campus in the late 90s/early 2000sand constantly had a crew of our company's guys working there especially on the execs offices.
My friend has been in there. He works at the HQ down the street.
The sound of nothingness in a abandoned complex
music to my ears
Very clean and power still in. Fresh find! Nice job!
Wouldn't be bad to turned in to apartment complex
One thing I’ve always wondered about the places that he explores is how do they fall into abandonment
Walgreens merged into a new company called Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. about ten years ago.
@@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.
@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.
WinXP, and the computer still on and running, haha.
I can’t get my head around the fact that it was still XP and not something more current.
14:43 they left stewie behind!
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.
There has to be an executive office suite in their somewhere.
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.
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
No way you took the elevator wtf
he's a wallstreet bets degen
i got an ad for walgreens in the middle of this 😂
This reminds me of The Backrooms. Excellent explore, kind of creepy with everything so empty.
Keep up the good work, love what you do on your videos ❤
I'm late to this channel,
But this is what I love, TH-camrs 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).
Very backrooms!
Windows XP?? 🤔
Zombie apocalypse I can hold up I can hold up in that.
I was JUST thinking this.
it would be so hard to cut off every entrance tho😭
They left the power on 😮😅
Some times they get left on
@@nickpatrick1636 that is the truth
Sometimes it turns itself on, electricity feeds off darkness, and sometimes it feeds off itself electricity producing illumination with electricity.
@@Jason-rn4jk okay thanks for the info on this matter young man 👍😎
Owner probably wants to make sure the building is okay. During winter heat probably has to be set low so pipes don’t burst.
Gotta take an under door tool with you next time 😁
A what?????
Weird how both the Walgreens signs don’t have the W lol
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
Why do all lights work
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 😂
I grew up in blue island right by this place. Always wondered about it
This looks very creepy
dang foo, I built this place with my own two hands back in 2064!
crazy it still exists gee will-i-ckers
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.
I think it's Deerfield but it also looks like that huge Allstate building in Deerfield (also closed) with the covered walkways between buildings
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
Wrong.
Good video.
visiting again in 2023
'Backrooms' Vibes
All this room and ppl will be sleeping outside tonight..
Those people you’re white knighting for would trash this place into oblivion and probably still sleep outside of it lol
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.
“Smell, violence, drugs, sex, piss, shit, and overdosed dead people lying around” would make a great name for a band.
How is it abandoned if the powers still on? Straight up B&E right here..
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!
It’s almost like Simeon still works in there
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".
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!!!!
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.
Isn't Walgreens in decline at the moment?
I wonder why walgreens left this place??
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
Just a huge waste of space time and money
why did they close this place
It looks like a gross mall from 1986 and they are on their way to bankruptcy, closed 2000 stores.
Backrooms
This is in Deerfield right
Yes
Ok
Pretty low budget for a corporate HQ. Must be a regional or divisional HQ.
It was an extension of the main HQ. Across the street is the main HQ, which is still operational, and is very nice.
How is the power still on
Is this in Northwest Indiana?
north chicago suberbs, its like 5 mins from me
@@DuncanBMwhere at?
Why did Walgreens move ?
Either downsizing or a new facility
Most people still working from home? So many office spaces closing...
most of their employees working from home.
There's whole new facility across the street is huge.
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
Who else wants to live there lol?
3:16 those wires probably transmit the "magic" to make things happen in the 3D Reality!!!!!
Gosh darnnit, we hacked into the motherboard!!!!!
Now 692 likes 😅
He probably looking for cash to
😂
69 likes 😅
Who is paying for these lights???
An old lady named Sally. Walgreens. So Walgreen customers.Who else? They still own the building.
@@tranzco1173 bahahahah
I am so excited to visit the headquarters later this month 🫶🏼
...why did Walgreens have a caged up area at the beginning? 🫨
Storage
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)
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.
@@tranzco1173 yep spent many a hours in the cage