Albert Karoll sees more men go to work or out to dinner in cargo shorts, T-shirts and hoodies. But the owner of Richard Bennett Custom Tailors isn't giving up.
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Updated 12/21/2020 7:52 AM
Even when you ve known for months what s coming, walking away from a 30-year business doesn t begin to sink in until the space is empty and the keys are handed over. On one hand, I m ready. On the other hand, this is my life, Steve Strumberger mused last week while tending to final details in his little storefront shop facing Cook Park in downtown Libertyville.
At 85, Strumberger was prepared to call it a career. But he wouldn t have left if he didn t have to. It was my home here, he said.
Like other small businesses, Steve s Formal Wear & Tailors was sunk by the unrelenting coronavirus pandemic.