Joliet harrahs casino starbucks

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The fire solved a hell of a lot of “problems” for them in one fell swoop. I remember a decade ago when the only Starbucks in Joliet was INSIDE the casino. This most successful of multinational corporations apparently operates on the old communist principle: no competition. Harrah’s wanted the site for parking, as the congregation left some time ago.Ī local group bought it and decided to convert it into a concert venue.

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It wanted this beautiful church because of its location, and it wanted to demolish it.Ĭhrist Episcopal was on Landmarks Illinois’s Chicagoland Watch List last year, because Harrah’s has been breathing down its neck. Harrah’s has demolished a dozen buildings in Joliet – many made of local limestone like Christ Episcopal, mostly for parking. Harrah’s casino has meant a lot of money to Joliet, mostly in exchange for that grace. It was an 1887 masterpiece of picturesque Gothic by Frank Shaver Allen, who gave Joliet a lot of grace. This one was intact – had a fantastic interior with clustered columns and a real nave-like nave – which means the ceiling read like a boat. I will really miss this one and it is apparently a total loss, although the quaint Gothic tower pictured here survives. Joliet’s Christ Episcopal Church burned this weekend.

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