Village Tavern & Grill in South Elgin will be serving its patron-popular chicken fingers once last time Tuesday before it shuts its doors after eight years in business.

Owner JR Hutson said a number of factors contributed to the decision to close the 464 Redington Drive restaurant.

“We’ve been going back and forth with our landlord over some issues and decided not to fight those anymore,” Hutson said. “That’s on top of the rising costs of food. It’s tougher and tougher to serve good food at a fair price. It’s crazy how much prices have gone up, and it’s too much for people. They can’t afford to come in as much as they used to.”

As one example, he cited the cost of the chicken breasts used to make chicken fingers, the restaurant’s most popular dish. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandem

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