Mariano's Fresh Market Opens "Lakeshore East" Grocery Store on Benton Pl Near Millenium Park
Mariano's Fresh Market opened Tuesday at 333 East Benton Place, just north of Millenium Park in downtown Chicago. The store is the fourth Mariano's Fresh Market opened by Roundy's, a well-known major grocer from Wisconsin. Following the opening of the first store at 802 East Northwest Highway in Arlington Heights in summer 2010, Mariano's Fresh Market stores have popped up in Vernon Hills, and at Western and Roscoe in Chicago. Roundy's CEO Bob Mariano has said that up to eighteen stores are planned for Illinois, with one under construction next to the new Palatine Police Department Headquarters on the former Kmart location, just north of Northwest Highway and Hicks Road.