{"id":193054,"date":"2025-10-06T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193054\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:18:12","slug":"a-park-ridge-store-is-putting-up-the-closed-signfor-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193054\/","title":{"rendered":"A Park Ridge store is putting up the closed sign\u2026for good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xo4nc000e01wlzsk8b67y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Workers at a Park Ridge store are putting up the closed sign today\u2026for good.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xrqrc001t357t701pse6o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cWe\u2019re all very over the store closing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xrqt4001u357to3w0ibp8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Outside American Science and Surplus here in Park Ridge hangs a sign that reads \u201ceverything must go.\u201d Inside, a handful of customers rummage around the shop\u2019s unique, and discounted offerings.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xrqvn001v357tkw8ksndz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cWe\u2019re tired. Yesterday was one hell of a day where we had hundreds of customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xrqyf001w357tph0s0yf2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Worker Shanoa tells us it\u2019s a lot quieter on the store\u2019s final day of business, which comes a few months after owners raised nearly 200 thousand dollars in hopes of keeping it alive.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG8482-e97ec840-4e53-4618-9bab-e98dd285ab23.jpg\" alt=\"American Science and Surplus shoppers\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      American Science and Surplus shoppers<\/p>\n<p>      Photo credit Andy Dahn\/WBBM<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xrqzu001x357txvm2r2a0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard for small, cool and unique places to thrive. All that\u2019s going to be left is the big, name brand stores. It\u2019s a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmg6xrr1c001y357td113qngf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">However, American Science and Surplus isn\u2019t going away entirely: locations remain open in Geneva, as well as Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Andy Dahn\/WBBM\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers at a Park Ridge store are putting up the closed sign today\u2026for good. \u201cWe\u2019re all very over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-193054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}