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Vol. 101, No. 13

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Fire guts Andrea’s Restaurant PAGE 5

Forest Park goes for Pritzker Election Results: page 6, 8

MARCH 28, 2018

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Living Fresh Market to get $450K from Forest Park New grocery store in the mall now slated to open in June

ROBERT J. LIFKA Contributing Reporter

The Forest Park Village Council, Monday, unanimously voted to provide GCC Company LLC up to $450,000 to facili-

tate the leasing, remodeling and operation of Living Fresh Market in the Forest Park Plaza shopping center. Officials of Living Fresh Market say the new store will create 60 jobs when it opens at the 70,211-square-foot former Ultra Foods site at 7520 W. Roosevelt Road. Construction

started in January. Although officials had initially hoped the store would open in April, the target date is now June 1, Mayor Anthony Calderone said Monday. See LIVING FRESH on page 16

The crumbling towers of youth The LOOP’s demise resurrects memories of hijinks past By RICHARD DALTON Contributor

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ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer

Nia Gillespie, 8, of Forest Park, plays a game of Plinko on Saturday, March 24 during the annual Spring Carnival at the Howard Mohr Community Center in Forest Park.

A good neighbor has your back.

o a teenager, The Loop and the ACME grain elevators were two “Towers of Rock” that we were sure would never crumble. Solidly sculpted rock, they thrust local teenage boys into Review headlines back in 1980. Mark and I hung a queen-size bedsheet, which read “The Loop FM 98,” from those grain towers early that year. Why? “Cuz we were bored!” Mark would say. That’s why we did everything back then. Also because The Loop (WLUP-FM, recently transformed into Christian rock), which was still fairly new at that time, transmitted “cool.” Clad in black Loop T-shirts, the uniform of Steve Dahl’s Insane Coho Lip Army, 20 or so of us cavorted daily through the abandoned towers and adjoining warehouses, transforming it into our personal Teenage Wasteland. See TOWERS OF ROCK on page 10

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