Dining
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Little Caesars in Glendale Heights to give away free pizza for a year to first 100 guests SaturdayMar 19, 2025 5:01 pm - Little Caesars is celebrating the official grand opening of its new Glendale Heights location on Saturday with free pizza for a year for the first 100 guests in line.
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‘A very big ‘wow’ moment’: Billy Bricks celebrates 20 years of wood-fired, brick-oven pizza in the suburbsMar 19, 2025 2:08 pm - Most people come home from a vacation with souvenirs. The founder and namesake of Billy Bricks, Bill Wilson, came home from a trip 20 years ago with a taste for wood-fired pizza. When he couldn’t find any brick-oven pizzerias in the Chicago area, he decided to open his own.
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‘I can’t wait’: Des Plaines City Council approves incentives, development deal for new downtown restaurantMar 19, 2025 1:16 pm - The Des Plaines City Council this week enthusiastically approved a multimillion-dollar economic incentive and development agreement that will bring a new restaurant to the downtown district.
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Dining out: March Madness specials, a new Moretti’s and moreMar 18, 2025 3:46 pm - We’ve got March Madness specials in the suburbs, as well as a way to help kids with pediatric cancer, a new Moretti’s in Wheeling and an anniversary for award-winning Brother Chimp Brewing in North Aurora.
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The Biz Week That Was: Celebrity chef opening restaurant, new meat store, and bird flu vaccines to curb soaring egg pricesMar 15, 2025 2:20 pm - Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis opening restaurants at Hollywood Casino in Aurora and Joliet Befitting its name, Hollywood Casino Aurora is pulling in some star p...
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Alfresco dining: A onetime lifeline turned summer mainstay for suburban eateriesMar 15, 2025 1:50 pm - Embraced out of necessity amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a way for restaurants to operate safely, alfresco dining offered a lifeline for many suburban eateries. Now, what started as a means of survival has become a summer mainstay, and a profitable one at that.
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A new restaurant could replace long-shuttered Oliveti’s in Des PlainesMar 14, 2025 11:10 am - The brick building that years ago housed Oliveti’s Italian Ristorante in downtown Des Plaines soon could make way for a new eatery.
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Mount Prospect serves ‘triangle’ restaurants with valet parkingMar 13, 2025 4:50 pm - Parking is limited for restaurants in Mount Prospect’s “triangle,” bordered by Busse Avenue, Main Street, Northwest Highway and Wille Street. Mount Prospect provides help with a valet parking service.
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Carnivore’s paradise: Wild Fork opens Buffalo Grove locationMar 13, 2025 1:51 pm - Minutes after Wild Fork opened its Buffalo Grove location Wednesday morning, customers began filling their baskets with meat.
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Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis opening restaurants at Hollywood Casino in Aurora and JolietMar 12, 2025 10:34 am - Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis will open restaurants in the new land-based Hollywood Casino locations in Aurora and Joliet. Joliet is slated to open later this year while Aurora is scheduled for the first half of 2026.