CHICAGO—It wasn’t too long ago when the outlook for Chicago grocery could politely be called ‘uncertain,’ with the shuttering of Dominick’s 72 stores at the end of 2013 as the most visible sign of this.

But that picture is changing, says Peter Caruso of JLL. GlobeSt.com caught up with the agency leasing lead for the Chicago and Midwest markets to find out what changes he’s been seeing in the last twelve months. 


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