If you see some buildings in Illinois with “for lease’ signs on them, this is one of the reasons. A new report says that 5 Illinois Gamestop stores recently learned they will soon be closing their doors for good.
Earlier this week, we learned that 4 Missouri Gamestop stores had suddenly or were about to close. You can add these 5 Illinois Gamestop locations to that list as the Gamestop Closing List website says they’re about to shut down.
Gamestop – Berwyn Towne Square, 6631 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Illinois
Gamestop – Collinsville Crossing, 1120 Collinsville Crsg., Collinsville, Illinois
Gamestop – North Glen S.C., 3022 S. State Rt. 159, Glen Carbon, Illinois
Gamestop – Harwood Commons, 4715 N. Harlem Ave, Harwood Heights, Illinois
Gamestop – Melrose Park S.C., 1501 W. North Ave., Melrose Park, Illinois
I worked a second job part-time at the Quincy, Illinois Gamestop store more than a decade ago and it was a tight-knit small group of workers there that did their best even if there weren’t many hours being allowed by corporate. It’s even more of a challenge now that the video game world has seen the seismic shift to digital downloads and many game consoles don’t even come with a physical disk drive anymore…