Home Depot Penny Items and Clearance in Chicago IL (2026)
There is no published list of Home Depot penny items for Chicago, and any site that offers one is guessing. Penny stock is set per store, is never announced, and gets pulled without warning. What you can do is work at least 20 verified Chicago locations systematically: check the clearance end caps, then scan the SKU, because the shelf tag almost never shows $0.01. Scavenger's ZIP scan is free and narrows which stores are worth the drive.
Home Depot locations we verified in Chicago
Every address below was pulled from Google Places on 8 September 2026. Places returns a maximum of 20 results per search, so this is a verified sample of the Chicago metro rather than a complete count. Store hours and stock change, so confirm before driving out.
| Store | Address |
|---|---|
| The Home Depot | 1232 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60642, USA |
| The Home Depot | 1300 S Clinton St, Chicago, IL 60607, USA |
| The Home Depot | 3500 N Kimball Ave, Chicago, IL 60618, USA |
| The Home Depot | 6211 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60659, USA |
| The Home Depot | 4555 S Western Blvd, Chicago, IL 60609, USA |
| The Home Depot | 2665 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60614, USA |
| The Home Depot | 200-232 W 87th St, Chicago, IL 60620, USA |
| The Home Depot | 2555 N Normandy Ave, Chicago, IL 60707, USA |
| The Home Depot | 1919 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60639, USA |
| Home Services at The Home Depot | 1300 S Clinton St, Chicago, IL 60607, USA |
| The Home Depot | 7200 S Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60629, USA |
| The Home Depot | 2570 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA |
| The Home Depot | 2803 S Cicero Ave, Cicero, IL 60804, USA |
| The Home Depot | 2201 Oakton St, Evanston, IL 60202, USA |
| The Home Depot | 300 Commons Dr, Chicago Ridge, IL 60415, USA |
We verified 20 locations in total and listed the first 15 here.
What penny items are, in one paragraph
Home Depot marks a discontinued product down in stages until the system sets it to $0.01, which flags it to be pulled from the floor. Until an associate physically removes it, it can still sit on a shelf and ring up for a penny. The full explanation is in Home Depot penny items explained.
Reading the price tags before you scan
- Prices ending in .00 are usually regular price
- Prices ending in .06 are often a first clearance markdown
- Prices ending in .03 or .02 are deeper markdowns as the item ages
- $0.01 is penny status, meaning the item is flagged to be pulled
Tag endings are a rule of thumb, not a promise. The timing behind them is in the Home Depot clearance schedule, and the tag codes themselves are broken down in Home Depot clearance codes.
Hidden clearance in Chicago stores
Hidden clearance is stock that has been marked down in the system but still shows its old shelf label, so it looks full price until it scans. It is the most common reason two shoppers walk the same Chicago aisle and only one finds anything. Scanning the SKU is the only way to see the live price, and Home Depot SKU lookup covers how to do it in store.
Why store count matters in Chicago
Chicago stores sit close together across the North and West sides, and seasonal turnover is sharp here. Garden and patio stock gets marked down hard once the weather turns. A SKU that has gone to a penny is usually set that way across a region, so if one store has already pulled it, a nearby store may not have.
Hunting another metro? See Home Depot penny items and clearance in Houston TX.