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player ready...Jebens Hardware closed its doors for the final time in Blue Island this week ending a 143-year run in the south suburbs.
The store posted a notice on its Facebook page Tuesday announcing it was closed: “Jebens Hardware is now closed. Remaining inventory is being donated to Habitat for Humanity. Thank you to all our customers new and old.”
The owners announced in May that it would be closing in July. A liquidation sale started May 29.
Attempts at selling the store at 13311 Olde Western Ave. were unsuccessful.
The store opened its doors in 1876, the same year Gen. Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry were defeated at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
The Jebens family ran the store until selling it in the 1970s.
The building is now for sale.
Palos antique store closes
Diana’s Fine Things, an antique store at 12343 S. Harlem Ave. in Palos Heights held a three-day liquidation sale over the weekend as it closed its doors.
Lou Malnati’s opens first Indiana location
Lou Malnati’s pizza has made its first move across the state line into Indiana.
The pizza chain opened its first Hoosier location in the Town Square Shopping Center on U.S. 41 in Schererville last week in a former Gayety’s Chocolate satellite store.
The Schererville location will offer carryout, delivery and catering. It employs 35 people and is the chain’s 58th location.
Lou Malnati’s recently opened its first south suburban dining room location, in Tinley Park.
Hours at the new location are 4-10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday.
Runnion Equipment opens new facility in Hodgkins
Runnion Equipment hosted a grand opening celebration last month at their new facility at 6201 East Ave. in southwest suburban Hodgkins.
Over 150 customers and vendors attended the event on June 26, including representatives from National Crane, Elliott Equipment and Dur-A-Lift, as well as Mayor Noel B. Cummings and his staff.
Facility tours were provided throughout the new 37,400-square-foot building, which accommodates all crane services in house. The facility includes 17 service bays and a training center for technicians and operators, along with an expanded parts storage and customer service area.
There is also an outdoor demonstration space where equipment buyers can try out a new crane before purchasing it and an indoor showroom.
The cranes available at Runnion Equipment include National Crane by Manitowoc, Palfinger knuckle boom loading cranes and the Epsilon line of cranes from Palfinger. Additional lifting equipment carried are Elliott HiReach telescoping aerial work platforms and Dur-A-Lift Inc. telescoping and articulating aerial personnel and material-handling lifts.
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“This facility has been in planning and progress for several years, so we are very excited to have moved in and begun operations here to be able to better serve our customers,” said Mike Prochot, president at Runnion Equipment.
The company moved earlier this year from its longtime home at 7942-7950 W. 47th St. in nearby Lyons.
Bob Bong is a freelancer for the Daily Southtown. He can be reached at [email protected].