The Little Corporal, Meadowview Shopping Center, Kankakee IL. “Truly royal dining but not at a royal price!” It’s also “Kankakeeland’s most atmospheric restaurant.” Sixties architecture at its ugliest, really - but you have to admire the name of the place. A sly joke, perhaps - for decades, men wondered why they struck out with the girls in the Waterloo Lounge.

I’ll bet the guys who worked here were short order cooks! Hyuk. Sorry.

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