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Operations and events are being assessed after an antique car crashed into the kitchen entrance and ruptured a gas line at Mickey Finn's Brewery in downtown Libertyville.
Libertyville has enacted permanent rules involving temporary outdoor dining and reinstated a measure making it easer to build 1,500-square-foot additions in the downtown commercial district.
Two Illinois breweries earned medals at the prestigious World Beer Cup last week in Minneapolis, and both are in Lake County.
Updated 12/21/2020 7:52 AM Even when you've known for months what's coming, walking away from a 30-year business doesn't begin to sink in until the space is empty and the keys are handed over. "On one hand, I'm ready. On the other hand, this is my life," Steve Strumberger mused last week while tending to final details in his little storefront shop facing Cook Park in downtown Libertyville. At 85, Strumberger was prepared to call it a career. But he wouldn't have left if he didn't have to. "It was my home here," he said. Like other small businesses, Steve's Formal Wear & Tailors was sunk by...