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The Two Brothers Roundhouse, formerly the Walter Payton Roundhouse, America's Historical Roundhouse, and Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Roundhouse and Locomotive Shop is a historic building converted to a restaurant in Aurora, Illinois.
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]
The Walter Payton Man of the Year award will be presented during the annual NFL Honors show on CBS on Feb. 8 at 9 p.m. ET. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: ...
Montana State quarterback Tommy Mellott won the Walter Payton Award as the Football Championship Subdivision offensive player of the year Saturday night, two days before the top-ranked Bobcats ...
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 ...
Then there's the "Walter Payton Game" in 1999, just more than 25 years ago, in which the Bears won in almost the exact way as the Packers did Sunday. Played at Lambeau Field, lineman Bryan ...