• Frankfort's New Restaurants Have One Thing in Common, and It Isn't the Menu,Lauren Roman

    Frankfort's New Restaurants Have One Thing in Common, and It Isn't the Menu

    Look across Frankfort right now and you will find a steakhouse that opened in February, a burger counter that reopened in April, a breakfast counter taking over a longtime pancake house, and a sushi restaurant still weeks from its first dinner service. It would be easy to read this as a coincidence

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  • Munster's New Restaurants Keep Choosing Old Buildings,Lauren Roman

    Munster's New Restaurants Keep Choosing Old Buildings

    Drive past Calumet Avenue and 45th Street today and you'll see the town's most talked-about development still filling in. As of the most recent local reporting, the first tenants of Maple Leaf Crossing, the shipping-container project that made regional news for its design, had just started moving in

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  • Cedar Lake's Newest Museum Piece Is About Ice, Not Water,Lauren Roman

    Cedar Lake's Newest Museum Piece Is About Ice, Not Water

    Cedar Lake sells itself on the lake. The marina rents kayaks, the restaurants build their patios around the view, and every summer weekend the water fills with boats. So it's a little strange that the most talked-about new addition to the town's cultural life this year has nothing to do with swimmin

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