Category: In The News

Fat Rosie’s Taco and Tequila Bar, the creation of veteran restaurant owner Scott Harris, has opened its fourth Chicago-area Mexican concept restaurant, leasing space at Lincolnshire Commons. This is the seventh restaurant currently operating at Lincolnshire Commons which is owned and managed by an affiliate of Next Realty, LLC. Jonathan Hyman of Metro Commercial represented…

Pete’s Fresh Market is targeting an early September 2022 opening of a store in Tinley Park under tentative plans that would also bring 81,000 square feet of additional retail space to the site of a shuttered Kmart. The independent chain, which is moving ahead with an aggressive campaign of store openings in the south and…

Urban Air Adventure Park was getting set to open May 9 in the former Butera Market in St. Charles. And then the pandemic struck, which pushed back the opening of the indoor trampoline and adventure park. The park – located at 2732 East Main St. – is set to open its doors to the public…

In April, representatives of Boston Market posted a sign in the front window of their Joliet restaurant at 1866 W. Jefferson St. The sign read, “We’re temporarily closed.” But Boston Market was not temporarily closed. The closing was permanent. Now, four months later, the Boston Market property is for sale or for lease. The owners…

For the first time since it closed in March, Urban Air Adventure Park in Mokena is set to reopen. The park, 19800 La Grange Road, will reopen on Saturday. According to the business’ Facebook page, the number of guests allowed in the park will be limited. Enhanced cleaning procedures will also be implemented. Patch //…

Schaumburg trustees voted 5-1 Tuesday to approve a second recreational marijuana dispensary in the village. this one located in the former Luna Flooring Gallery building at 820 E. Golf Road, just east of Red Lobster… …Though the 9,120-square-foot Enlightened dispensary is the second recreational marijuana business the village board has approved, it is the third…

While all but one of its indoor playgrounds are temporarily closed because of the pandemic, a California chain is looking to expand nationally because it sees a real estate opportunity in the crisis: Key retail locations may become available as businesses struggle. The question is whether that struggle could then also prove to become a…

Tens of thousands of Joliet area motorists have passed the “MARSHALLS COMING SOON” sign during the past several months. In the next few days, that sign will go away. On Monday, Shorewood Village Administrator Jim Culotta informed Patch that Marshalls plans to have its grand opening on Thursday, July 16. The new store is in…

2020 was trundling along well for chef Stephen Gillanders. S.K.Y., his acclaimed Pilsen restaurant, continued to draw diners from across the city three years after opening. He announced plans for his second restaurant, Apolonia, in January, and hoped to launch the South Loop European-Mediterranean spot by the end of the year. But on Sunday, March…

Taco Bell will convert three of its traditional restaurants into Cantinas this year as part of a test to see if suburban consumers enjoy the more upscale locations as much as urbanites. The Yum Brands chain opened its first Cantina in 2015 as a way to appeal to customers who were spending their money on…

An indoor nine-hole miniature golf course and bar is one swing closer to opening in Wicker Park. Located at 1302 N. Milwaukee Ave, The Big Mini needs a zoning change in order to receive a building permit. And to receive a zoning change, they needed help from neighbors. The Wicker Park Committee voted unanimously Wednesday…

A pot-inspired sandwich chain is coming to Chicago to capitalize on the buzz over legal recreational marijuana as Cheba Hut inches toward its debut in the city with two locations. One local franchisee has signed a lease in Wicker Park, the company confirmed, while another is working to lock down a space in Wrigleyville or…