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Granite City is an interstate chain of brewpubs. The locations in Orland Park, East Peoria, and Northbrook closed in 2019. The one in Rockford closed in 2020. Several other Illinois locations are still open. [595] [596] [597] Harrison's Restaurant and Brewery, Orland Park, opened in 1998, closed in 2013. [598]
Stanford was platted, under the name of "Allin", on December 14, 1867. Its founder was John Armstrong (1820–1912). [5] It was founded when the Jacksonville Division of the Chicago Alton and St. Louis Railroad was extended westward from Bloomington.
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In 1923, Villa Grove's high school basketball team, the Blue Devils, defeated Rockford 32–29 to win the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship. [6] Railyard aerial view. Villa Grove's historic rail depot was demolished in the predawn hours of Friday, October 29, 1976, despite a city ordinance that was intended to protect the ...
The Pho Noodle House at 206 W. Camp Street in East Peoria will soon become Farmer's Buffet, an American-themed buffet restaurant run by Sam Mach who owned the former Grand Village Buffet at the ...
The Eagle in Clerkenwell, London; the first pub to which the term gastropub was applied. A gastropub or gastro pub is a pub that serves food of high quality, [1] with a nearly equal emphasis on eating and drinking. [2] The term was coined in the 1990s in the United Kingdom.
The Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop in Springfield, Illinois, is one of the few remaining early Maid-Rite franchises in the United States. This specific shop, built in 1921, claims to have the first drive-thru window in the U.S. [2] The building, along historic U.S. Route 66, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
San Jose is located in eastern Mason County and northwestern Logan County. U.S. Route 136 passes through the village as its Main Street, leading west 24 miles (39 km) to Havana, the Mason county seat, and east 23 miles (37 km) to McLean.