Dining
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Pope Leo partnering with two big names in Chicago dining for restaurant at historic papal retreatSep 05, 2025 4:26 pm - Celebrity chef Art Smith and restaurateur Phil Stefani will open a restaurant and handle catering services at Borgo Laudato Si’, part of a historic papal retreat newly opened to the public.
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Tore & Luke’s in Palatine to close Sunday for reported move, next location still unknownSep 05, 2025 2:56 pm - A suddenly announced move from its 2-year-old current location in Palatine suggests another chapter on the way in the more than 40-year history of Tore & Luke’s Italian Beef & Pizza in the area.
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Dining out: A pair of restaurant closings, the state’s first drive-thru-only Chick-fil-A and a 20th anniversarySep 03, 2025 1:07 pm - A pair of restaurants along Randall Road in the Fox Valley announced closings this week, while a drive-thru and walk-up only Chick-fil-A opening Thursday in Naperville will be the first of its kind in the state.
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Guzman y Gomez offers BOGO burritos to celebrate high school football’s return
Sep 03, 2025 10:45 am - Guzman y Gomez, an authentic Mexican fast-food restaurant with locations in Buffalo Grove, Crystal Lake, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Naperville and Schaumburg, is bringing back its Friday Night Lights promotion in honor of the new high school football season.
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It’s a good time to be a restaurant consumerSep 03, 2025 10:42 am - 2025 is a little more than halfway done, and already we are seeing the best year in restaurant sales in the last five. Sales this year are above where they were at the same time in 2024.
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Coming price cuts at McDonald’s may signal a broader fast food price war
Sep 03, 2025 10:36 am - McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal.
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Hop, hop, hooray: It’s time for fall beer fests around the ’burbsSep 03, 2025 9:22 am - There’s a bevy of beer events brewing around the suburbs as we get closer to Oktoberfest, so make plans now to attend one or more of these upcoming festivals.
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Tap House Grill in Algonquin owner on closing: ‘It hurts me to say ... it just didn’t work’
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Plan to convert historic bank building into restaurant could be ‘a major change for the downtown,’ Des Plaines officials saySep 02, 2025 8:29 pm - A historic building in downtown Des Plaines will be renovated and turned into a restaurant under a multimillion-dollar plan approved Tuesday by the city council.
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St. Charles restaurateur among featured chefs for Cooking Up a Cure fundraising event