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Wheaton Restaurant Owners Value the "World's Best Customers"
When Dick O’Gorman moved to Wheaton in 1959, his parents attended wakes at the funeral home at 120 Hale Street. More than 50 years later, as O’Gorman celebrates the anniversary of th...
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Glen Ellyn Mom Expands Online Greeting Card Business
Tucked away in an alley off Duane Street in downtown Glen Ellyn is the warehouse for an online greeting card business that caters to customers around the globe. 11 years ago, PJ Car...
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2012 Marks 150 Years of Service for Glen Ellyn's Downtown Grocery Store
McChesney & Miller Grocery & Market will reach an impressive milestone this year by staying in business for 150 years. Withstanding many changes, the store owes its success t...
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Love Compels Glen Ellyn Resident to Reopen Her Mother's Lingerie Boutique
Tucked away in the retail spaces sitting on the corner of Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Glen Ellyn are fond family memories for Kathryn Hudson. Her mother owned a gift shop on th...
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Local Resale Shop Colorfully Adds a Bold Twist
With an eye for design and a love for adding a colorful punch to resale items, two Glen Ellyn residents are attracting more and more customers of varying financial means to their vintage ...
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Born to Repair His Customers' Soles
A former Glen Ellyn resident has been walking around in his father's size 9.5 work shoes since 1982. Thanks to Doug Herwaldt's longtime Glen Ellyn business Paul's Shoe Service, Jim Hollan...
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Five Corners Cleaners Presses Forward With 50-Year Business
Armed with a keen business sense and out of the box thinking, the late Herb Menke established a solid foundation when he created Five Corners Cleaners, 818 N. Main Street in Glen Ellyn....
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Serving Abroad and at Home
Gerardo “Jerry” Hernandez, owner of Ellyn’s Tap & Grill, is familiar with hot spots—ones that lie in his busy kitchen and ones he faced over seas while serving as a Marine. Herna...