CHICAGO (PRWEB) August 01, 2018 A new restaurant is coming to Yorktown Center. Yorktown Center, a popular 1.5 million-square-foot Chicagoland shopping and dining destination, recently announced the first winner of its Taste For the Space™ culinary event hosted in June. Berwyn-based Ofrenda won an opportunity to open its dream restaurant at Yorktown Center as well as 6 months…
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BERWYN – It’s been Berwyn resident Ernesto Torres’ lifelong dream to own a restaurant with his younger brother, Fernando, and after winning a contest at Lombard’s Yorktown Center this summer, their popular Berwyn-based food truck, Ofrenda, will open as a brick-and-mortar location in early 2019. The contest, Taste for the Space, featured 12 Chicago-area food trucks,…
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Michael Peña (left) and Stephen Colbert. — Actor and Chicago native Michael Peña talked Chicago food on Thursday night on Late Night With Stephen Colbert. Colbert and Peña chatted about their experiences in the city, but it appears Peña has a shrinking memory. Peña, who appeared in Ant-Man and the Wasp,repeatedly referenced “Gold Coast Italian Beef,” a restaurant that…
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Sears is closing stores. Carson’s is going out of business. But discount retailers are expanding and racking up sales. Judy Fiol, of Morton Grove, shops at Macy’s Backstage in Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie on July 26, 2018. Backstage is Macy’s “on-mall, off-price concept.” It was Fiol’s first time shopping there, and she remarked,…
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A new restaurant is coming to Yorktown Center. Yorktown Center, a popular 1.5 million-square-foot Chicagoland shopping and dining destination, recently announced the first winner of its Taste For the Space™ culinary event hosted in June. Berwyn-based Ofrenda won an opportunity to open its dream restaurant at Yorktown Center as well as 6 months free rent…
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Every shopping center needs a “selfie station,” where visitors can create a social media moment. Street mural artist Kelsey Montague made just such a display recently, at Chicago’s Yorktown Center: a health-and-wellness-inspired mural done live before shoppers on April 14 and 15. Strategically situated between Yorktown’s Amazing Lash Studio and European Wax Center tenants, in the…
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A Chicagoland retail center is taking advantage of consumers’ growing desire to better themselves by clustering fitness, health and beauty tenants in a “self-care precinct.” Pacific Retail Capital Partners and Clifton Realty Management have added a 12,000-square-foot “self-care precinct” to Yorktown Center, a 1.5 million-square-foot, two-level shopping center in Lombard, Ill. The addition enables shoppers and…
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Yorktown Center Brings National Fitness, Health & Beauty Brands Together in One Designated Area at Lombard’s Urban Lifestyle Center CHICAGO – (January 23, 2018) – Pacific Retail Capital Partners (PRCP) and Clifton Realty Management have uncovered an unconventional way to incorporate a $10 billion industry trend to improve an underutilized area of a popular Chicagoland…
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Yorktown Center’s School Bucks Program provides funds to local schools. Students in Lester Elementary School will have a new inclusive playground providing accessible equipment to children of all abilities and developmental levels, thanks in part to Yorktown Center and its generous School Bucks program. The program allows community members to give back to local schools…
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ORIGINAL STORY: August 25, 2017 by WGN Web Desk and Erin Ivory CHICAGO — If you have young kids, you know what a workout just lugging a big stroller and car seats around can be. Do why not make *that* the workout? Hundreds of moms have and they are loving it. Along Chicago’s lakefront, it’s bootcamp for moms.…
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