As Keith Michalek strives to revive a Waukegan business — Glen Rock Beverages — which ceased operations nearly 35 years ago by taking his trailer equipped with a 12-flavor pop dispenser to events in Lake County, he is getting a lot of people excited and nostalgic.

“It’s exactly the same pop,” Waukegan native and one-time Lake County Reorder Mary Ellen Vanderventer said. “It tastes exactly the same. It’s a trip down memory lane.”

“We’d return a bottle, get five cents, and get candy or another pop,” Mayor Sam Cunningham said, evoking a childhood memory. “He’s rebuilding a business here, and it’s exciting for the community.”

“We’d go there once a week when I was growing up,” Amanda Milewski, now an administrator for Waukegan Community Unit School District 6, said. “It was our weekly field

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