Proudly serving our customers in the Chicagoland area since 1899, Jewel-Osco provides friendly service, quality products and great value. Jewel-Osco operates 186 stores throughout the Chicagoland area, Indiana and Iowa, which is part of a 2,200+ store operation that employs approximately 265,000 people nationwide. All of our stores, no matter what banner they operate under, were founded around the philosophy of offering customers the products they wanted to buy at a fair price, with lots of tender, loving care. We still open our doors every day with that in mind.