Popular on Patch: Little People’s Country Sets Up Shop in Former 7-Eleven Storefront

Wondered about what’s going on at the old convenience store? It’s the child-care center next door moving their second location adjacent to their first.

Little People’s Country Sets Up Shop in Former 7-Eleven Storefront

Wondered about what’s going on at the old convenience store? It’s the child-care center next door moving their second location adjacent to their first.

When a construction company strips a building or location completely bare, the resulting four white walls sometimes is referred to as a “vanilla box.” At the former 7-Eleven at the corner of Hillgrove and Ashland in La Grange, where construction has been ongoing for a few weeks now, this has apparently caused a bit of confusion. As Cindy Perkins recalls it: “As we were working outside, getting the façade ready, people would look by, look at the building permit and say, ‘oh, The Vanilla Box, another restaurant is coming!’” Not so much. (Although Perkins now jokes that there really should be a Vanilla Box restaurant somewhere.) Perkins is the director of the child-care service Little People’s Country, which up until now has had its services …

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