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Walgreens started out as a neighborhood drug store in 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. How Charles R. Walgreen Sr. got into the drug store business is an interesting story: As a teenager, he accidentally cut off part of his middle finger while working at a shoe factory and had to give up playing sports. Needing to keep his mind busy, he worked at a drug store for a year and a half.