Wilmette shoe shop to close by November

Most people probably would agree with Jim Adams, president of the Country Cobbler, when he says, "It's tough to make money anymore." It's not just the recession.

[Seymore]

The landlord, instead of having a tenant paying the same amount, will now have an empty store generating zero revenue for him.

And of course Wilmette, being the very difficult town to do business in that it is, will scrutinize the next tennant so much you can be sure that it will hardly be a vibrant business.