CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) -- Businesses are ready as alumni from all over the country return to the U of I for homecoming. And for one campus staple, this year will be emotional.

Restaurants will be packed to the brim with Fighting Illini fans, especially with a ranked football team and at specifically at a place many call a tradition: Papa Del's Pizza. The restaurant is looking forward to it, but they say this homecoming is a lot different because they're missing the man who made Papa Del's an institution.

This year, the Papa Del's General Manager said the weekend won't feel the same. Andrea Seten is the daughter of Robert Monti: the original founder and owner of the Champaign institution.

"It's always been a big weekend for us, we opened on Homecoming weekend in 1970," Seten said. "He wo

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