What is Jewel-Osco?
{{Infobox company | logo = Jewel-Osco logo.svg }} [[File:Jewelosco1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A Jewel-Osco market in Chicago]] '''Jewel-Osco''' is a [[supermarket]] [[chain store|chain]] headquartered in [[Itasca, Illinois|Itasca]], [[Illinois]], a [[Chicago]] suburb.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewelosco.com/about/ |title=About Us |website=Jewel-Osco Grocery Stores |access-date=February 14, 2011 |quote=Jewel-Osco Headquarters 150 Pierce Itasca, IL 60143 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725191452/http://www.jewelosco.com/about.html |archive-date=2013-07-25 |date=<!--undated--> |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref> Jewel-Osco has 185 stores across northern, central, and western [[Illinois]]; eastern [[Iowa]]; and portions of northwest [[Indiana]].<ref name=SVU-Jewel>{{cite web |url=http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/retail/banners/jewel.jsp |title=Jewel-Osco |website=SuperValu |access-date=February 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123213019/http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/retail/banners/jewel.jsp |archive-date=2013-01-23 |date=<!--undated--> |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref> Jewel-Osco and Jewel are currently wholly owned subsidiary of [[Boise, Idaho]]-based [[Albertsons]]. The company original started as a door-to-door coffee delivery service before it expanded into delivering non-perishable groceries and later into grocery stores, and supermarkets. Before to its 1984 acquisition by American Stores, Jewel evolved into a large multi-state [[holding company]] that operated several supermarket chains and other non-food retail chain stores located from coast to coast and had operated under several different brand names. == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * {{Official website|www.jewelosco.com|Jewel-Osco Homepage}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:1890s establishments in Illinois]] [[Category:1899 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:Companies based in Chicago]] [[Category:Supermarkets of the United States]]