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Posted 14 September 2017 - 08:13 PM

CraftBeer.com:

 

Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery: Chugging Along Inside a Historic Train Station

 

Flossmoor_Brewery_Powers.jpgFlossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery is a converted train station. (Credit: Mathew Powers)  

 

September 13, 2017

 

At first, Ryan Czaja didn’t want the head brewer job at Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery. The unique challenges of preserving the former train station’s rich history while operating a modern-day brewery is a big responsibility, and Ryan thought he wasn’t ready.

 

But Dean and Carolyn Armstrong, Flossmoor, Illinois, natives who invested in the crumbling station in 1996, thought otherwise.

 

(READ: 7 Offbeat Places to Drink Craft Beer)

 

Constructed by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1906, the Flossmoor Station was a stop for Chicago residents looking for a getaway from the bustle of urban life. There were exactly six homes in Flossmoor when the station was built, and the railroad bought 160 acres of land there with plans for a golf course for those city-weary travelers. A century later, golf courses and the railway remain, and Flossmoor is one in a vast network of Chicago suburbs. But the station is something else.

 

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