Arts: To Lake Forest

To Lake Forest

John R. Thompson, of Chicago, has, like others, a home in Lake Forest, is, like others, member of the Chicago Athletic Club, Hamilton Club, South Shore Country Club. But none but he has in Chicago, 47 restaurants.

The Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business...

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