This is horrible! My family went to this one all the time! There are restaurants, retail stores and other stores closing shop left and right in Orland. At what point it the Village going to step in and find out why is there a sudden mass-exodus out of Orland Park? All this loss in retail sales tax is going to be hitting everyone in town very soon. How many more cuts in village services will be forced to "deal with" when there is not sales taxes coming in anymore? Or worse yet, wonder how much more property taxes will be raised to make up for all these losses?

The best thing that people can do is support the businesses they go to and tell others about them. Government can't really control who thrives and who doesn't. I know it might seem strange that three businesses close within a week (Sam Maguire's, Extreme Pita), but let's also remember that CiCi's opened and Dickey's BBQ is on the way.

I was there last November and asked the manager how business was doing (something I've made a habit of doing the past couple of years) and she told me that it was just terrible since the 143rd road project began. They were in a bad spot with that construction.

I just had another thought on this. There are a lot of businesses around that intersection, and a vast majority of them are still here after the work is just about finished. I also had asked a few businesses around there about how they were doing with the construction, and while no one was jumping for joy about it, the managers/owners mostly said they were getting through it. I'm not doubting what the Brown's manager said, but there are other factors that enter into whether a business thrives or not.

I think if you looked at the elevation/grade for the lot, you'd have noticed it was very difficult to enter the parking lot from 143rd -- especially if it had snowed -- and you nearly always had to enter and exit on 144th pl. So might have been the conditions for that location as well. None of the other businesses on that corner (except nearly Pizza Pete's) have/had that kind of issue.