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Cheers Liquors opens in Mokena

New liquor store opens in Mokena, furniture store plans job fair

We’re not sure everybody knows your name at Cheers Liquors but the store opened in late March at 19155 S. LaGrange Road in Mokena in the strip center between Wendy’s and the BP station. Its owner is Emeal Rezk and the store is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

For information, call 708-479-5200 or visit its Facebook page.

Art Van Furniture plans job fair in Orland Park

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Art Van Furniture, which is moving into the Chicago marketplace this summer, has scheduled a job fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 12, at the Orland Park Civic Center, 14750 Ravinia Ave.

The Michigan-based retailer plans to open as many as six stores this year in the Chicago-area with the first store in Orland Park scheduled to open in July. Other locations are planned, so far, for Countryside and Batavia. The company also signed a five-year lease for an 183,000-square-foot distribution center in Bolingbrook Corporate Center West.

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Jobseekers can apply in person on April 12 or online at www.artvan.com/careers. Employment information is available at 1-888-987-8190.

For more news on businesses elsewhere in the Southland, please visit Comings & Goings or Southland Savvy.

If you see a new business in town or wonder what happened to an old favorite, drop me a line at bobbong@hotmail.com.

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