Orland Square Mall has started remodeling its food court as part of the mall’s face-lift that started last year. In addition to new tables and seating, the food court will be getting two new tenants when the overhaul is finished by the end of the April. Minnesota-based ChikWich is a restaurant that specializes in chicken sandwiches. The Orland location will be the chain’s first in Illinois and the first outside of Minnesota. The original location is in the Mall of America. Zoup! is a soup and sandwich shop that features a dozen rotating varieties every day. The company was founded in Michigan…

Tinley Park has become a hot spot for college campuses even with the impending demise of Sanford-Brown College. Chamberlain College of Nursing is the latest institution of higher education to settle in Tinley Park at 18624 W. Creek Drive in the same building at DeVry University. The Tinley location is the 13th campus for the school, which has been training nurses for 122 years. The campus will offer bachelor of science of nursing degrees and offers year-round study. Students could earn degrees in three years. The college features nursing skill labs, a coronary care unit, an obstetrics area, …

Los 3 Burritos, a Mexican restaurant that was once part of the Burrito Loco chain, has opened a second location in Tinley Park at 7108 W. 171st St. It is the fourth location for Los 3 Burritos, which is based in Diamond, Ill., and has another location in Streator. The original Tinley location is at 8005 W. 183rd St. and is a full service restaurant with a liquor license. The second location has a couple of tables but is basically intended to be a take-out or delivery burrito joint. A manager at the 183rd Street location said the owner would like to open even more locations in the southwest …

Pete’s Fresh Market may have abandoned plans to move into the former Dominick’s on LaGrange Road, in favor of building a new store at 143rd Street and LaGrange Road at the former Terry’s Lincoln site. But the grocery store chain based on Chicago’s southwest side has found a new tenant for the former supermarket at 15080 S. LaGrange Road in Orland Park. Michigan-based Art Van Furniture has signed a 10-year lease to convert the former food store into a 46,000-square-foot store at the Orland Greens Shopping Center. The project has an estimated cost of $2 million. Dominick’s closed in November …

The Lincolns are already gone and Terry’s Lincoln will disappear from Orland Park on Feb. 1. The dealership at 9401 W. 143rd St. is holding a liquidation sale as it prepares to call it quits at the end of the month. Forget about a deal on a new Lincoln, the cars and parts moved over to Joe Rizza’s dealership at 8100 W. 159th St. earlier this month when he added the Lincoln franchise to his stable of car brands at his Orland Park location. Terry’s still has some used Lincolns as well as a well-stocked inventory of other used cars that it hopes to move out this week. “Anything that doesn’t sell…

It took a little longer than expected, but Buona Restaurants and Catering opened Wednesday in Orland Park. The restaurant at 9525 W. 131st St. opened Wednesday. It is the 15th location for the family-owned Berwyn-based chain that got its start in 1981. The restaurant is open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and offers dine-in, carry-out and catering. The Orland location includes a drive-through lane, and sells beer and wine for people dining in. The menu includes beef and roasted chicken sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs, pizza, salads, soups and milkshakes. There also is a kids menu. For …

Career Education Corp. is closing all three of its Chicago-area Sanford-Brown College campuses in Tinley Park, Hillside and Skokie. The Tinley campus will be the first one to close in January 2014. The company is closing 23 campuses as part of a massive restructuring that includes 900 job cuts. The campuses have stopped accepting new students and will continue to operate until current students finish their degrees. Fitness center opens in Orland Anytime Fitness recently opened at 11025 W. 179th St. in Orland Park. The co-ed gym, which is owned by Kenneth Howard, is staffed from 11 a.m. to 7 p…

Outriggers Fish House at 15917 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park has served its last calamari – at least for a while. The Greek seafood restaurant abruptly closed its doors for the last time Saturday night. “We lost our lease,” said Dimitri, a manager who declined to give his last name but promised the restaurant would be back soon in a new location. “We won’t be gone for too long,” he said. “We don’t want our customers to forget us.” Dimitri said he wasn’t sure the restaurant would reopen in Tinley. “It will be somewhere in the neighborhood, we like this area,” he said. Outriggers, which has had…

Cuzzin’s restaurant at 8600 W. 159th St. in Orland Park closed a few weeks ago after being sold to new owners, according to its former owners on their Danny’s Catering Facebook page. Cuzzin’s website says, "Our Orland Park location Cuzzin's/Cugino's is now closed. Please visit Danny’s in Melrose." A message on Danny’s Facebook page posted on Nov. 19 says, “We want to let all our friends and fans know that we have sold our Orland Park location. For those of you on the south side I promise coming to Danny’s in Melrose Park for dinner or your catering needs will be worth the ride. Stay in touch …

Odyssey Fun World in Tinley Park is continuing a holiday tradition it started last year when it throws the switch on its Christmas Light Show. The amusement park strung 100,000 lights on the outside of its building last year, and played Christmas music that was punctuated by the lights dancing on and off. “We plan to have the lights in full swing by (today),” said Clint Paraday, Odyssey general manager. “We’ll have more songs this year, and added the Grinch.” The show will start each night at dusk and continue until about midnight through the first week in January. Motorists can pull over in …

Orland Park officials earlier this month approved a tax-sharing plan with Mercedes-Benz of Orland Park to help offset the cost of expanding the dealership into the neighboring former BMW dealership that moved into its new home at 159th Street and Wolf Road over the summer. The deal will give the village the first $264,532 in sales taxes generated by the dealership each year for the next five years. The village and dealership will split any additional sales taxes above that amount for five years or until the dealership has collected $453,690. The Mercedes dealership wants the additional space …

Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet opened last week at 7260 W. 159th St. in Orland Park in the Home Depot plaza. The restaurant, which features Chinese, Japanese and American cuisine, is the third buffet for owner Jacky Chen. He also owns locations in Matteson and Forest Park. “Business has very good, so far,” Chen said. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday. For buffet prices and information, call the restaurant at 708-802-8989. Tinley Glass Corp. Moves to Frankfort Square Tinley Glass Corp. moved recently…

Jim Saplis has been involved with cycling since he was old enough to reach the pedals. “I managed bike stores and turned several stores around on other people’s dimes,” he said. “So, I decided the time was right to do it for myself.” To that end, Saplis bought Orland Park Cyclery at 14445 John Humphrey Dr. in Orland Park, earlier this month. The shop will celebrate its reopening with Saplis as owner on Saturday, Nov. 3, and Sunday, Nov. 4. “Everything in the store will be on sale,” he said. There also will be vendor exhibits, giveaways, food and fun, he said. Saplis, 47, said Orland Park …

Office Depot will be closing its store at Orland Park Place on Dec. 12 and is expected to move sometime in 2013 into a much smaller space across the street in Ravinia Plaza. The move is part of the office supply retailer’s move away from larger stores into much smaller stores. “During the past few years, Office Depot has been focused on improving the in-store shopping experience for our customers by remodeling stores into a smaller format, which makes them more intimate and easier to navigate,” Office Depot communications manager Julianne Carelli said in an email. “The current store is nearly…

“I’ve been looking forward to this for years,” said Mike Houston, 46, of Palos Hills, after he was the first customer at Peppo’s Dili-Deli in Tinley Park when it opened at 9:30 a.m. Friday at 6905 W. 159th St. “I thought they should have expanded years ago,” said Houston who added he was carrying on a family tradition regarding Peppo’s, which opened in Palos Hills in 1976. “I’m standing in for my brother Dan,” said Houston. “He was the first customer in 1976. He would have been here for this today but he had to work.” “I plan on being the first customer at their next location, too,” he said. …

Kris Kringle Haus, a seasonal Christmas store that operates from October through December in Orland Park, opens Monday, Oct. 1, at 14934 S. LaGrange Road, its new location in Orland Park’s Park Point Plaza. Owner Jim Gierucki only looks like Santa Claus with a bushy white beard, but the store is definitely filled with the Christmas spirit as it has been for the past 23 years. The store is open through Jan. 6. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays, and from noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Upcoming events include Black Friday specials with hot cider, …

Odyssey Fun World at Harlem and Oak Park avenues in Tinley Park is bringing back its Fun Farm and Corn Maize for Halloween and has lots more in store this season. “We have a lot of cool stuff going on at night this year,” said Clint Paraday, general manager of the amusement park. The biggest thrill will probably be the Zombie Safari complete with attacks by zombies and the chance to blast them with turret-mounted paintball guns. “Special trailers with 10 paintball guns on each side will venture out and stop at certain scenes where the trailer will be attacked by zombies,” said Paraday. “Each …

Peppo’s Dili-Deli, a popular sub shop since 1976 in Palos Hills, is coming to 6905 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. “We’re hoping to be open in early October,” said Robert Peplowski, 28, a partner in the business and the son of its founder, Jim Peplowski. Both men live in New Lenox. “We’ll have the same menu as the Palos Hills location,” said Peplowski, who added that the sub shop might have additional expansion plans in mind. “If it works out in Tinley, we’ll open more,” he said. “We’ll continue to move south.” The Tinley location will employ about 10 people, Peplowski said. “We’re now taking …

Labor Day not only marks the end of summer, but signals the start of the Halloween season — stores dedicated to the holiday are gearing up in both Tinley Park and Orland Park. Halloween City at 15846 S. LaGrange Road in Orland Park will have its village inspection this week and should open soon in the former Party City store, which closed earlier this year after merging with the Party City store at 14906 S. LaGrange Road. Job applications are being accepted at the store. A Halloween City store sign appeared last week at 16195 S. Harlem Ave., and a Spirit branch is being advertised at 16086 S…

Chain link fences that went up recently near the McDonald’s restaurant at 171st Street and Harlem Avenue in the Tinley Park Commons shopping center are a precursor to two projects planned for that area. First, Chase Bank is building a 3,800-square-foot facility in front of McDonald’s with an estimated price tag of $2.5 million. According to plans, the bank will feature two drive-through lanes and a drive-up ATM, and is expected to have eight to 10 employees. “It will be the first Chase Bank within the village limits,” said Ivan Baker, Tinley Park’s economic development director. Second, three…