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UpdatedFri, Dec 18, 2020 at 9:10 pm CT Replies(50) Joliet police have responded to 244 service calls at the Star Inn on West Jefferson Street as of Dec. 8. Several involved heroin overdoses, felony assaults, domestic violence trouble and people found dead in their rooms. (Image via John Ferak/Patch ) Joliet police have responded to 244 service calls at the Star Inn on West Jefferson Street as of Dec. 8. Several involved heroin overdoses, felony assaults, domestic violence trouble and people found dead in their rooms. (Image via John Ferak/Patch Editor ) JOLIET, IL — The Joliet Police Depa...

“We should be open within a couple of months,” said owner Pan Hompluem. “From a construction standpoint, we’re ready to go.” The downtown Milwaukee restaurant will be Lowcountry’s third location, joining its two locations in Chicago. Hompluem, who’s worked in the restaurant industry for two decades, launched the concept in 2015 in the Lakeview neighborhood and later expanded to the South Loop Hompluem cited a couple reasons for his move into the Milwaukee market. He’s a big fan of the city – he and his wife Dana have enjoyed taking weekend trips to hang out or to visit fri...

Dec 12, 2020 4:23 PM Photo Credit: Kyle Hutchinson / MWF-Springfield While you wait in a quick moving drive-thru line this weekend to get Portillo’s at Parkway Pointe, could you soon have another high-end fast food option?  The State Journal-Register is reporting that the old Baker’s Square Building on Freedom Drive has been sold to the Tartan Realty Group-A Chicago based retail brokerage firm–for a little over a million dollars.  Baker’s Square abruptly closed last January, and maybe the fact that I personally didn’t noticed they had closed until the pandemic started in March pro...

A running list of Milwaukee-area restaurants that permanently closed during coronavirus crisis Journal Sentinel staff © Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Blue's Egg in Shorewood, the second location of the popular brunch restaurant by Black Shoe Hospitality, is permanently closed and will be replaced with a new restaurant by the group. The coronavirus and Wisconsin's safer-at-home order have forced some Milwaukee-area restaurants to close, costing precious revenue in a business that traditionally has thin margins.  © Scott Ash/Now News Group Samano's Mexican Restaurant in Cuda...