https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/04/05 ... 5a195eda01

The best places are dropping like flies. I think this is due to a hot real estate location and children who don't want to wake up at 2 am every day their entire lives.

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Gotta be the real estate.

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That’s sad.

Deerfield’s looks fantastic. I’d like to get to all these places.

What incredibly depressing news. Another great Chicago institution fades into a palpable but increasingly distant, receding past. Say goodbye to the old days and the old ways.

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This really does make me sad. I think of those kids to be in one of the most fortunate positions in the world. I’d love to be one of them, it makes my little heart ache a bit.

These are the type of places that hold a neighborhood together as its a location for connection and a point of commonality in a world incentivizing being split.

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Definitely. I always enjoyed the Dinkel's bismarks, eclairs and chocolate frosted donuts--but I also loved the feeling of being at Dinkel's and the sense of social connection it fostered. It was one of those enchanting and enchanted "third spaces" that allow neighborhoods to become communities.

Don't even get me started on the loss of Huettenbar. Another magical place vanished into thin air. That one really hurt.

Of course, I am still mourning the losses of Lambert's Bowling Alley on Broadway and Lounge Ax more than two decades ago.

At least the beer garden at Resi's will still be around, I hope, when I am in town this summer.

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Looks like "Big Bakery" taking over this country now.

Lincoln Square has been denuded of the charm it had even 20 years ago. Now, it's just a quirky little two block commercial stretch along a one lane street.

I didn't think The Brauhaus was the best German place even in the area but it was an anchor. I don't even know what the quintessential Lincoln Square commercial place would be now...maybe Selmarie. and, of course, people are moving to eliminate one of the great chicago ethnic festivals, that lincoln square oktoberfest

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Bennison's looks like it will be safe for a while. I'd like to get there. At least 2 of the owner's kids work in the industry. I watched a roundtable thing with him in it today. He won first place at the Coupe du Monde in 2005. So great. Seems very Chicagoy too.

It's pretty damn impressive to have a small business in operation for 100 years. Also, for those people who frequented the place, it sucks that it's closing. However, the only constant in most urban neighborhoods is change. It's unreasonable to expect businesses to stick around and neighborhoods to maintain their character over more than one or two generations. That sucks when you lose a place you love, but could mean something else that's cool and interesting might pop up somewhere else.

I grew up with Bennison's, it seems like the next generation really got into improving the product. But it's probably 10 years since I've been to either location.

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Entenmann's! (yuck)

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I used to live around the corner from Dinkel's. Haven't been back in years. Maybe I'll try to get there one last time.

It's a shame.

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Never been there but i do like these old neghborhood places.

RIP.

As much as I like these kinda bakeries, I rarely buy shit from them as it is just fattening shit. Cookies, cakes, doughnuts, etc.

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