April 10--Sprint said it will open 27 additional locations in the Chicago area Friday, all to be within RadioShack stores.
The Overland Park, Kan.-based mobile-service provider is expanding across the country, with plans to open smaller shops inside the troubled electronics retailer.
In all, Sprint will open 1,435 new Sprint-RadioShack locations around the United States, including 57 in Illinois.
Inside the new, co-branded locations, the stores will exclusively sell Sprint prepaid and postpaid mobile devices. The company will hire about 130 new employees for the Illinois stores, a spokeswoman said.
In February, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy and announced that many locations, including several in the south suburbs would be closing. Last week, however, General Wireless, an affiliate of Standard General, acquired 1,743 RadioShack Stores. Then, Sprint and General Wireless agreed to join forces, with Sprint as the primary brand in marketing materials and signage, the companies said in a statement.
The new Chicago stores are at:
4359 Archer Ave.
2509 W. Cermak Road
3150 S. Ashland Ave.
3347 S. Martin Luther King Drive
5316 N. Milwaukee Ave.
1965 W. Lawrence Ave.
And in the suburbs:
1047 S. York Road, Bensenville
1030 Summit St., Elgin
1191 S. Elmhurst Road, Des Plaines
1212 S. Naper Blvd., Naperville
12125 S. Western Ave., Blue Island
1272 N. Lake St., Aurora
1524 N. Lewis Ave. Waukegan
176 Skokie Valley Road, Highland Park
19 Crystal Lake Plaza, Crystal Lake
21182 S. La Grange Road, Frankfort
3716 W. Elm St., McHenry
5 E. Grand Ave., Fox Lake
535 S. La Grange Road, La Grange
540 W. Dundee Road, Wheeling
6905 W. Ogden Ave., Berwyn
6944 Kingery Highway, Willowbrook
813 S. Illinois Route 59, Bartlett
843 E. Rollins Road, Round Lake Beach
843 N. Wilke Road, Arlington Heights
914 Madison St., Oak Park
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