CHICK-FIL-A GOES TO CHICAGO

We like to support our hometown companies, like Chick-fil-A, whose Peachtree Industrial location we snapped late yesterday. We're excited for our friends in Chicago Land, who soon will be able to get their CFA fix. Construction is underway on three stand-alone restaurants in Aurora, Orland Park, and Wheaton, with six more locations coming in 2011. Dan Cathy, company prez and son of founder Truett Cathy, says, ?Our fans in Chicago, especially the transplanted Southerners, have been telling us for years they crave our hand-prepared chicken sandwiches, and we listened.? He adds that the loyalists started Web sites, Facebook, and Twitter fan pages and posted YouTube videos to make their case for Chicago CFA. Yeah, we find people do that for Bisnow, too.

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