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Duke’s Blues N BBQ is moving from its iconic red caboose in downtown East Dundee to a new digs in the building that formerly housed Van’s Frozen Custard .

The move was necessitated by downtown redevelopment plans that include not only the land on which the caboose now sits but the proposed Heritage Station , a mixed-use development for the Railroad Street site on the former Doederlein Lumber Co. property.

East Dundee owns the custard shop building at 16 E. Main St., which it purchased for the future realignment of the Route 72/River Street intersection.

Terrance “Duke” Seward and his wife, Rhiannon, have operated the popular walk-up restaurant out of the village-owned caboose at 112 Railroad St. since 2016. It’s open from March to Decemb

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