Unifirst Corp. paid $1.7 million for a 41,410-sf building at 2045 17th Ave. in this western Cook County suburb. The commercial laundry company needed a larger facility, and found it in a building sold by Slidematic Products Co., which paid $1.4 million for it in 1995, according to property records.

AIM Inc. got a 37,560-sf industrial building with room for its US headquarters at 502 Vista Ave. in Addison, paying $1.3 million for the DuPage County asset sold by a limited liability corporation. JC Penney got $1.2 million, or $30 per sf, for its 40,000-sf former warehouse at 2324 Palmer Dr. in Schaumburg. Retail point-of-sale service company Tekserve POS, LLC, needed the property to expand operations.

Paine/Wetzel · ONCOR International senior vice president Gregory R. Wright handled both ends of Slidematic Products' sale of the Melrose Park property to Unifirst Corp. Wright also represented the seller of the Addison property in negotiations with Blake Chroman and Todd Benson of CB Richard Ellis. Paine/Wetzel · ONCOR International senior associate Daniel T. Jones and associate Daniel J. Benassi represented JC Penney in negotiations with Ken Franzese and John Cassidy of Lee & Associates.