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[4] In 1995, the Aurora City Council voted to allow an investment group led by former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton to purchase the building. The building re-opened in 1996 and hosted a brewpub, restaurant, museum, and open-air pavilion. [2] Among the artifacts in the museum is Payton's championship ring from Super Bowl XX.
Since 1954, the restaurant has been owned and operated by the Hastert family. Robert Hastert Sr. was the first family owner-manager. Hastert had begun as a wholesale poultry dealer at the Aurora Poultry Market during World War II and later owned the Harmony House restaurant in Aurora, Illinois, which he had opened four years before he bought White Fence Farm. [2]
The roundhouse for the Chicago and Aurora Railroad (later Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad) was a major employer in Aurora from 1856 to 1974. After it sat vacant for twenty-one years, a group of investors led by Walter Payton converted it into an entertainment complex.
Harrison's Restaurant and Brewery, Orland Park, opened in 1998, closed in 2013. [598] Hofbräuhaus Chicago opened in Rosemont in 2013 [599] and closed in 2021. [600] Hofbräuhaus St. Louis opened in Belleville in 2018 [601] and closed in 2023. The brewpubs were part of an international chain licensed by the original Hofbräuhaus in Munich, Germany.
Hollywood Casino Aurora opened in 1993 as Hollywood Casino Corp.'s first riverboat casino. [2] The casino's ownership transferred to Penn National Gaming (now Penn Entertainment) after its acquisition of Hollywood Casino Corp. in 2003. [3] Two riverboats were first used, replaced by a 70,000 square feet floating, moored, half-circle structure ...
Owner George Lemperis said his restaurant, located blocks from Chicago’s United Center, was closed at the time and his employees had left about 3 p.m. nearly seven hours before the fire began.
Sixteen was designed by Joe Valerio, whose previous credits included the Garmin flagship store on the Magnificent Mile. [4] Valerio's design had to work within spatial constraints determined by the tower's architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, leaving him to deal with complications stemming from a variety of column shapes — some square, some round, and others rectangular.
The Hobbs Building is a historic commercial building at 2-4 North River Street in Aurora, Illinois.Albert Hobbs, a businessman and local civic leader, had the building constructed in 1895 for his furniture and undertaking businesses.