County Inn Pizza's Fate Unclear

ELMHURST, IL — County Inn Pizza on Roosevelt Road announced its closure in September with the hope it would open again. Since then, the restaurant has given mixed messages about its future.

Since September, the restaurant's website has been headlined, "We are currently closed for remodeling." That prompted one fan to write on Facebook: "Thank goodness, it's just a remodel. The best pizza around!"

But then doubt about its future emerged. A person wrote on County Inn's Facebook page saying that he worked at the pizzeria and that he was surprised when it closed. "I worked there for two years, and all of a sudden I don't have a job," he said.

Then a Chicago resident, Jimmy Taylor, said County Line Pizza was looking for investors "to keep their great pizza tradition going." The restaurant has been posting "under construction" images on its Facebook page since September, the latest one being last week. On the image, it says "for sale" and includes a phone number. In a post, the restaurant said the new owner would get County Inn's phone numbers, recipes and "75 years of pizza heaven."

In an early January post, a customer wrote, "What happened? You guys seriously had the best pizza. Been going there since the early 1990s." Taylor replied that the building was sold to investors. But that still doesn't answer the question of whether County Inn's pizza is coming back. Because it is on the county line, the restaurant is also known as County Line Pizza, according to its Facebook page.

Patch left a message for the restaurant at a number on its Facebook page, but no one returned it. The restaurant did not appear to be under construction Monday afternoon.