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Charles R. Walgreen Jr., son of the founder of the 105-year-old drugstore chain Walgreen Co., died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Northfield, Ill. He was 100 years old.
Born in Chicago on March 4, 1906, to drugstore entrepreneur Charles R. Walgreen and his wife, Myrtle Norton, the younger Walgreen began working for the family business at age nine, making deliveries from his father's second store located on Chicago's South Side.
After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Pharmacy in 1928, he...