Starbucks, South Side of Chicago

Starbucks’s new store on the South Side of Chicago is part of the coffee giant’s initiative to support local economic development in at least 15 diverse, low- to-medium-income communities by 2018. It’s the chain’s fourth such store, and follows locations in Ferguson, Missouri, Phoenix, and Queens, New York.

Similar to its three predecessors, the Englewood store aims to help revitalize its neighborhood by creating meaningful local jobs, investing in local minority-owned contractors and suppliers, and providing an in-store job skills training program for youth (conducted in a specially designed classroom space in the store).

The new Starbucks has an urban feel, and is highlighted with two paintings by Chicago artist David Anthony Geary.