A 2-year-old boy in Illinois was killed last month when a car crashed through the front door of a Portillo's, one of the state's most popular fast-casual food chains, as his family was enjoying an afternoon lunch together. Now, they're suing the establishment for over $100,000 — claiming the restaurant's designs and parking configurations are "unreasonably dangerous" and "vulnerable to vehicle intrusions."
"This is an absolutely devastating and heart-wrenching case," attorney Louis A. Cairo told Law&Crime last week after filing the McKee family's lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court.
"They're sitting at one of the tables closest to the entrance, they're having a great time at 2 o'clock in the afternoon," Cairo recalled about the day Finnegan McKee, son of Christina and Schyler McKee, was