QuikTrip opens Lansing Travel Center
Oklahoma-based QuikTrip opened a new Travel Center last week in Lansing.
The Lansing location opened July 20 at a former Kmart site at 17355 Torrence Ave.
The new location features a larger lot and a more spacious store than a traditional QuikTrip. There is room to service 20 cars for gas and eight diesel bays for trucks.
The company has food delivered daily from its bakeries and commissaries.
The Lansing store features an expanded QT Kitchen with a menu of coffee and iced tea, grab-and-go items like fresh doughnuts, salads, wraps, pizza by the slice and roller grill items. There are also specialty drinks and frozen treats, soft pretzels, pizzas, custom breakfast tacos, hardwood smoked barbecue sandwiches and cold brew coffee.
The Lansing Travel Center is open 24 hours. There is no overnight truck parking.
The company donates 5% of its annual net profits to charitable organizations including United Way, Safe Place, local food banks, schools and scholarships for military and first responder families.
Additional Illinois locations are planned for Effingham, Mt. Vernon, Addison and Champaign.
The company was founded in 1958 and recently opened its 1,000th store in Converse, Texas.
Loyola Medicine to open Saturday in Tinley Park
Loyola Medicine’s newest advanced ambulatory care center is set to open Saturday at 17901 S. LaGrange Road with a ribbon cutting and celebration featuring free ice cream and tours of the facility.
The ribbon cutting will take place at 10:30 a.m. with a community event to follow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
“This $69 million dollar development allows us to expand our reach to patients in the southwest suburbs,” Shawn Vincent, president and CEO of Loyola Medicine, said in a release.
The new location, on the southeast corner of 179th Street and La Grange Road, will feature specialties such as oncology, cardiology, digestive health, endocrinology, hepatology, neurology, orthopedics, otolaryngology and audiology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, primary care, pulmonology, radiology and sports medicine.
The 70,000-square-foot, two-story structure includes a comprehensive cancer care center, urgent care center, imaging services, retail pharmacy, fifty exam rooms, eight procedure rooms, and an X-ray suite and laboratory. The facility will open with a phased in approach beginning July 31.
County OKs design work on 143rd Street bridge
The Cook County Board of Commissioners recently approved $753,040 in funding for professional services for design engineering associated with the removal and replacement of the 143rd Street bridge over Tinley Creek.
Also approved was $1,580,744 to purchase capital equipment to support routine maintenance activities such as roadway preservation and maintenance, drainage infrastructure cleaning and installation.
Bob Bong is a freelance columnist. He can be reached at [email protected].