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The Red Barn Restaurant and Brewery

Mount Prospect, Mount Prospect, IL

The Red Barn at 303 E Kensington has been a gathering place for Mount Prospect since the building's construction in 1966, and the current ownership took over in 2018 with fresh energy and a brewery focus.

📅 2018–present🏛️ RestaurantStill here
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The story

The building was erected in 1966 by Ruth and Louis Cooper and originally opened as Farmer Cooper's Chicken Restaurant in 1967. Over the decades it changed hands and names multiple times, becoming a fixture in the Kensington Business Center area. In 2018, new local ownership stepped in to write the next chapter, rebranding it as The Red Barn Restaurant and Brewery. Today it operates as a brewpub serving American comfort food, with a game room featuring pool, darts, and shuffleboard. Live music and entertainment happen on weekends, and the restaurant is known for its Friday fish fry.

Everything that was here

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The building features a loft with views of the barn interior, reflecting its original farm-themed architecture from 1966.
The space was originally called Farmer Cooper's Chicken Restaurant, keeping with the Coopers' naming scheme.
The 2018 ownership maintains the building's identity as a community gathering place while adding craft brewing to the mix.

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Nearby history

Randhurst Village

999 N Elmhurst Rd · 334 m away
The open-air successor that rose where the dome fell.

Kid-E-Ranch

1 E Rand Rd · 366 m away
Ponies and kiddie rides on leased land at a busy highway corner.

Baldini's Barber Shop

2 Pine Street (originally 30 Busse Avenue) · 1.7 km away

Mount Prospect Public Library

10 S Emerson St · 1.7 km away
Three library buildings on one Emerson Street block since 1950.

Mount Prospect Plaza

940 E Rand Rd · 1.7 km away
Mount Prospect's first strip mall opened with an unpaved parking lot.

Capannari's Ice Cream

10 S Pine St · 1.7 km away
Gourmet ice cream served inside an 1880s general store.

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