Shareholders of Walgreens Boots Alliance overwhelmingly approved the drugstore chain’s $10 billion acquisition by private ...

Individual investors were the ones who piled into stocks when they plunged in early April, while big Wall Street institutions missed out on the gains.

The deal, announced on March 6, would allow Sycamore Partners to take Walgreens private. The drug-store chain expects the transaction to close in the third or fourth quarter of 2025.

The closures of three southeast Wisconsin Walgreens locations come after the company announced it would be closing 1,200 stores by 2027.