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Tent city outside Chick-fil-A in Mt. Prospect

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Joel Fox of Des Plaines, right, camps out Wednesday with family and friends in a tent city at the new Mount Prospect Chick-fil-A.

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Rich Fitzgerald of Oswego camps out Wednesday with family and friends in a tent city at the new Mount Prospect Chick-fil-A.

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Linda Foertsch, left, of Addison and Jennifer Floyd of Oak Lawn, camp out Wednesday in a tent city at the new Mount Prospect Chick-fil-A.

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Gale Ahrens of Plainfield camps out Wednesday with family and friends in a tent city at the new Mount Prospect Chick-fil-A.

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Nuno and Laura Schmidt of Mount Prospect camp out in the tent city at a new Mount Prospect Chick-fil-A.

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This is the tent city in the parking lot of the new Mount Prospect Chick-fil-A. The first 100 customers get free food for a year.

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More than 80 people began camping out Wednesday morning in the parking lot of the Chick-fil-A that will open Thursday, Feb. 21, in Mount Prospect. They are out to secure their place among the first 100 customers, who will be awarded a free year's supply of Chick-fil-A.