Monday, October 8, 2012
Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce's Community Expo will be held Saturday at Carl Sandburg High School • Reptile Show and Travel Fest coming to Tinley Convention Center this weekend • Gap remodels Orland Square Mall store.
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- Bob Bong
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Monday, October 8, 2012
“I’ve been looking forward to this for years,” said Mike Houston, 46, of Palos Hills, after he was the first customer at Peppo’s Dili-Deli in Tinley Park when it opened at 9:30 a.m. Friday at 6905 W. 159th St. “I thought they should have expanded years ago,” said Houston who added he was carrying on a family tradition regarding Peppo’s, which opened in Palos Hills in 1976. “I’m standing in for my brother Dan,” said Houston. “He was the first customer in 1976. He would have been here for this today but he had to work.” “I plan on being the first customer at their next location, too,” he said. So what makes Peppo’s so great. “The guts,” said Houston echoed immediately by the three other people sitting at his table. “You have to eat the sub …
Monday, January 16, 2012
A look at new businesses coming into town and a fond farewell to those that have, for whatever reason, called it quits.
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- Bob Bong
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Carm’s Beef, a new Italian restaurant with a rich history, has opened at 17801 S. Oak Park Ave. in Tinley Park. The original Carm’s was opened in 1947 by owner Mick Nebren’s grandmother at Cicero Avenue and what would become the Eisenhower Expressway. A second store followed in Berwyn and then a store was located in Hillside for more than three decades. “I left the restaurant business for a while to be a realtor,” said Nebren. “But I decided it was time to bring back Carm’s Beef.” The restaurant that also features pizza, hamburgers, Italian sausage, subs, deli sandwiches and all kinds of salads opened Jan. 9, said Nebren who owns Carm’s with his wife Judy. Both hail from Plainfield. “If you remember my grandmother’s place, that’s the kind …
Monday, November 28, 2011
Plans have been approved for a BP gas station, convenience store and car wash for the corner of 159th Street and 80th Avenue.
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- Bob Bong
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Monday, November 28, 2011
In case you haven’t noticed, work has begun on the former Clark gas station at 159th Street and 80th Avenue in Tinley Park. The corner has been fenced off and the building and pumps have been removed as site preparation has begun on a BP gas station that will also have a convenience store and a car wash in the back of the store. The site plan has been approved, said Assistant Village Manager Michael Mertens. Calls to property owner George Zervos were not returned. The Pita Wrap restaurant and an adjoining Verizon store closed recently in a strip mall at 6905 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. Join the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce at its Holiday Party at 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 5, at Papa Joe’s Restaurant, 14459 S. LaGrange Road in Orland …
Monday, November 14, 2011
A look at new businesses coming into town and a fond farewell to those that have, for whatever reason, called it quits.
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- Bob Bong
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Blue Island-based MetroSouth Medical Center recently opened a facility at 15614 S. Harlem Ave. in Orland Park. It’s the hospital’s 10th such community medical center. The center is staffed by family practice physician Dr. John Curtin, DO, who merged his practice with MetroSouth to create the MetroSouth Health Center at Orland Park. For information on office hours, call 708-342-1860. The hospital is hosting a business after hours through the Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce for the new health center on Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Outback Steakhouse, 15608 S. Harlem Ave. RSVP to the chamber so they know how many to expect. Or call 708-349-2972. Pita Oven, a Mediterranean restaurant that featured Greek and Middle …
Monday, August 22, 2011
A look at new businesses coming into town and a fond farewell to those that have, for whatever reason, called it quits.
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- Bob Bong
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Area moms and daughters welcomed Five Below discount store to Tinley Park “I love it,” said Becky Harrison, of Tinley. She was back-to-school shopping with her daughter Brianna, 10, at the new Brookside Marketplace store at 191st Street and Harlem Avenue. “There’s something for everyone and they have great prices,” she said. “I’ve been waiting for this store to open after I went a couple of times to the store in Orland Hills.” Five Below is the first of three new stores coming to Brookside Marketplace. A HomeGoods store is set to open next month and is hiring for the Tinley Park store, and work is underway on an Old Navy store, but no opening date has been set yet for that site. “I’m a little excited,” said Catharine DeRe, 11, of Mokena, …
Rick Jaros' Mom
8:05 pm on Sunday, October 14, 2012
Hi Mick (aka) Mickey, glad to hear that Carm's Beef if still around. Thiis is Judy Jaros, living in Florida now and searching the WEB for the Nebren Clan. Don't know if you will ever see this but just want all the folks on the South Side that i ate Carm's Beef at the Cicero Ave. location, Berwyn location. Hillside location and last but certainly not least, the Wheaton home location which was … more ›