It's been more than a year since we visited Gigi's in Naperville, a nice enough little restaurant that we probably would have returned to if it wasn't located in the bowels of southern Naperville, accessible only through a tortuously stoplight-ridden drive that we'd rather not experience again. For rather unfortunate reasons, however, it's a choice we may no longer have the opportunity to make.
On the evening of October 30, an explosion ripped through Gigi's Pancake House & Restaurant, critically burning two employees and causing extensive damage to the building. Read all about it here:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/10/2-burned-in-naperville-restaurant-explosion.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1250973,naperville-explosion-fire-102908.article
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=246722
The authors of this blog would never claim to be the foremost experts on pancakes in Illinois, or the inside source on all restaurant gossip in the Chicago suburbs. Nevertheless, there's no excuse for us to take three whole weeks to cover a story like this. That said, the past three weeks have given investigators ample time to survey the damage and their findings, just released this week, have shed new light on what first appeared to be a freak accident.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6519248
http://mobile.chicagotribune.com/news.jsp?key=187991&rc=top2
This isn't a detailed or final report, and it might be some time before we know just what happened that night. This isn't the first time that local pancake house has exploded. Will there be more to come?
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