Vernon Hills

There's one nearly-abandoned Illinois mall that is rising from the ashes of what it once was to become something new.

I had never heard of this restaurant chain, but that will apparently be the exception and not the rule soon. One of America's fastest-growing restaurant chains suddenly has 3 Illinois locations and that looks like it might be increasing soon.

There is a report from a national finance site that a major craft chain with 35 stores in Illinois may have filed bankruptcy.