The story
Partners Sam Vardalos and Nick Apostolopoulos reopened 18 W. Busse Avenue in early 2024 as Mount Prospect Public House, with live acoustic music, a late-night bar and private event space, ending a decade of vacancy on the downtown block.
Everything that was here
- 2024–present · still open
Mount Prospect Public HouseRestaurant
The Ye Olde Town Inn space came back to life in 2024 as a 5,000-square-foot gastropub and event venue.
See the map in 2025 → - 1969–2014
Ye Olde Town InnRestaurant
A downtown pizza-and-beer institution for more than four decades that closed without warning one Sunday in December 2014.
See the map in 1970 → - 1930–1965
Mount Prospect Bowling LanesEntertainment
A bowling alley is remembered at this downtown site before the tavern era; the 1930–1965 dates in this record have not been confirmed by the Mount Prospect Historical Society.
See the map in 1931 →
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Connected places
L'Escargot
The Ivanhoe
Nuevo Leon Restaurant
Nuevo Leon
Diamonds Restaurant
Coliseum Theater
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Nearby history
Station 34
Prospect Theater
Wille Coal and Lumber / Wille Hardware
Central Continental Bakery
Moehling General Store
Mount Prospect Public Library
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