Misty McCarty and her mother had been camped outside one Naperville establishment since 9:30 p.m. Monday. What were they after? Chicken Salad.

Dozens line up for new Chicken Salad restaurant.

Chicken Salad Chick opened its newest location in Naperville near Block 59 Tuesday morning.

The first 100 people in line for the grand opening were awarded a free large chicken salad a month for a year. The first person in line, McCarty, who had been there for over 12 hours, scored herself a free one every week for a year.

“It’s exciting. I mean, it wasn’t expected, but we decided that, you know what? We might as well. We have no other plans, so we might as well stick it out, and we did. And now we have full bellies, and…we get a year of free chicken salad,” she said.

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