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Charles Rudolph Walgreen (October 9, 1873 – December 11, 1939) was an American businessman and the founder of Walgreens.
Charles R. Walgreen (born Oct. 9, 1873, near Galesburg, Ill., U.S.—died Dec. 11, 1939, Chicago, Ill.) was an American pharmacist and businessman, known as the father of the modern drugstore. He created the largest retail drugstore chain in the United States.
DEERFIELD, Ill., September 26, 2016 - Charles R. (Cork) Walgreen III, former president, chief executive officer, chairman of the board, and chairman emeritus of the iconic U.S.-based drugstore chain Walgreen Co., died at age 80 on Monday, Sept. 26, at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. Walgreen III was the grandson of Charles R. Walgreen Sr., who ...
Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr. (March 4, 1906 – February 10, 2007) was an American businessman who was the president of Walgreens from 1939 until 1963 and the chairman of the board from 1963 until 1976.
Sep 26, 2016 · Charles R. Walgreen III, who expanded his grandfather’s drugstore chain into an $18 billion-a-year company by 1999 when he stepped down as chairman, died Sept. 26 at his home in Lake...
By transforming one quiet, average drugstore, Charles Walgreen had shaken up the entire drugstore business. And it was, in fact, in the soda fountain - where milkshakes had long been a staple of American drugstores - that Walgreen's next innovations took place.
Walgreen left after just a year and a half on the job. Still, Walgreen realized that his future lay not in Dixon, but in a far larger city - Chicago. Read the story of Charles R. Walgreen, Sr. and the neighborhood drugstore he founded in Dixon, Illinois in 1901.
