Vernon Hills to budget for summer activities with fingers crossed
With fingers crossed, Vernon Hills leaders will be budgeting for Summer Celebration. If it proceeds, the long-running festival likely will be in a different format. John Starks | Staff Photographer, 2017
Posted2/23/2021 5:15 AM
Vernon Hills isn t writing off big events this summer or fall, but whatever is held will be different from typical activities of the past.
The Arbortheater concert series and Fourth of July fireworks, for example, likely will proceed. But because of unknowns involving the coronavirus, planning events involving large gatherings is a work in progress, village officials say.
We just don t know where things will be trending in the next few months, Village Manager Mark Fleischhauer said.
Liquor Barn, Binny s coming to Vernon Hills
Binny s Beverage Depot will move into the former Hobby Lobby at 290 Hawthorn Village Commons in Vernon Hills. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Liquor Barn will move into the former Chuck E. Cheese location at 700 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Vernon Hills. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Two familiar liquor retailers are repurposing empty stores in Vernon Hills for new locations.
Interior buildouts of the former Chuck E. Cheese and Hobby Lobby stores for Liquor Barn and Binny s Beverage Depot, respectively, are underway.
Both locations are in strip shopping centers in the dense commercial area centered at Milwaukee Avenue (Route 21) and Townline Road (Route 60). Chuck E. Cheese operated at Hawthorn Hills Square on the south side of Route 60, and Hobby Lobby was on the north side at Hawthorn Village Commons shopping center.