Aldi is closing its grocery store in West Pullman, in a move a Far South Side alderman said leaves the neighborhood “without a single grocery store offering affordable, high-quality fresh food.” Aldi is the latest grocer to shutter a supermarket on the city’s South and West sides,

Meanwhile, the Batavia-based company opened a Forest Park location last week as it continues a national expansion plan, announced earlier this year.

Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st) said the closure is a breaking of a promise that Aldi would remain in the neighborhood.

Chicagoans who live in the city's West Pullman neighborhood pulled up to find their neighborhood grocery store closed for business this week. "I was here a few days ago and I noticed it was empty," Ebony Williams said.

The closing of an Aldi grocery store in the West Pullman neighborhood has angered an alderman who says the company broke a promise. The store at 115th and Halsted Streets abruptly closed on Sunday. Ald.

Ald. Ronnie Mosley (21st) called the closure of the store at 821 W. 115th St. a betrayal. Darius Johnson reports.