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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.
The Roundhouse was built in 1865 for the Chicago and Aurora Railroad. After being abandoned in 1974 it was then purchased by a group of investors led by Walter Payton in 1995 and converted into a restaurant and brewpub. The Roundhouse officially reopened in June 2011 as the Two Brothers Roundhouse. [7] [8]
A statue of Walter Payton accompanied by a plaque was dedicated in front of the south entrance to Soldier Field in 2019. [80] Until its sale to Two Brothers Brewing in 2011, Walter Payton's Roundhouse continued to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the Aurora, Illinois site. A plaque now hangs on the building commemorating Payton.
The roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois, constructed in 1856, was purchased and restored by NFL football player Walter Payton in 1995. After Payton's death, the roundhouse was occupied by a micro-brewery and renamed Two Brothers Roundhouse, with a plaque mounted in Payton's honor. [26]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cam Heyward received the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year award on Thursday night at NFL Honors.. Prince Harry introduced Heyward.
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America's Brewpub in the Walter Payton Roundhouse, Aurora, [501] opened in 1996, closed in 2011. Andersonville Brewing. The Hamburger Mary's restaurant chain opened a location in Chicago in 2006. [502] A brewery and taproom called Mary's Rec Room was added in 2009. The brewery was renamed to Andersonville Brewing in 2014. [503] It closed in ...
Payton Wilson went No. 98 overall on Friday night in the NFL Draft to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was projected to be selected higher after an impressive final year at North Carolina State, but ...