Maple Inn burns down in Blue Island in another insurance scam

Baxter Lomax
  The famed Maple Inn in Blue Island burned down last weekend and with this news many Blue Island and area residents were saddened as the mos likely scenario sees Panda Express and Potbellys moving into this reclusive and remote area of Southern suburbs in Chicago. The Southern suburbs are really shit area with chain few cool non-chain eateries as the South suburbs are full of shitty chains. The Maple Tree Inn was a great fresh food family run business in a building that had been there at the turn of the century.

The burning of the Maple Inn is highly suspicious given with the land grab of the corporate crappy chain elites that both want the space and do not want the competition form unique and beloved places like the Maple Inn. As bartender of the Itasca Inn in Itasca we are fully aware of the tactics and presure given by these corporate chains to sell off to these global brands and turn all communities into cookie cutter replications of each others and how people continue to support and eat at chains is sad but often the result of monopolies and monopoly of space and lack of cool unique neighborhood loving paces like this Maple Tree Inn. People would come from all over the area and even Wisconsin and stop at this unique eatery and the cool interior and layout and this cannot be said about White Castle. Hopefully the owners rebuild this food temple and retian much of the same old look and bar as possible as there really is not much more for folks in this gang banging town to look forward and enjoy a meal in a place they have never seen elsewhere.