Politics & Government

Catering Services Approved for OTB Site

Buffalo Grove officials signed off on a license that will allow Progressive Management Services to provide food and drink to off-track betters at the former Adam's Roadhouse location.

Off-track betters in Buffalo Grove will soon have access to food and drink courtesy of .

Progressive Management Services LLC, which serves the village-owned golf club, gained permission from the village Monday to temporarily cater food and alcoholic beverages to 301 N. Milwaukee Ave., home of the former .

Adam’s Roadhouse , but the OTB operation continues to be run by Hawthorn Race Course.

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Buffalo Grove trustees voted 4-2 to allow Progressive Management to provide service at the site, with Andrew Stein and Beverly Sussman casting the dissenting votes.

“The Arboretum is terrific,” Sussman said. “But it is for OTB. I have always been against OTB.”

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The license was granted on a temporary basis. Deputy Village Manager Ghida Neukirch estimated that the service will be provided there for 90 days.

“They are aggressively trying to find another location (for OTB),” she said.


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