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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.
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 ...
The entire highway in Illinois is named the Walter Payton Memorial Highway after Pro Football Hall of Famer Walter Payton, who wore #34 for the Chicago Bears. The highway is 211.37 miles (340.17 km) long within the state. [2] The bridge into Iowa over the Mississippi River is called the Great River Bridge.
Aurora's Two Brothers Roundhouse. The Chicago and Aurora Railroad was a direct predecessor of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.Its original incorporation as the Aurora Branch Railroad, chartered in February 1849, [1] started as a twelve-mile branch line which Class I giant BNSF cites as the beginning of their empire: this "short stretch of track set BNSF’s destiny into ‘loco ...