This Elmhurst Business Plans Full-Service Restaurant

ELMHURST, IL — Elmhurst's Courageous Bakery Cafe, 108 W. Park Ave., is moving to become full-service restaurant. As part of that process, the business requested a liquor license from the city. On Monday, the City Council granted it.

Founded in 2012, Courageous Bakery expanded to include breakfast and lunch bistro options a year later. With a full-service restaurant, Courageous Bakery wants to offer alcoholic beverages such as mimosas and bloody marys during brunch, according to city documents. The business would serve alcohol from a service bar and has no plans for a sit-down bar with stools.

According to the restaurant's website, sisters Kathryn and Laura Pekarik share a passion for baking. In May 2010, Kathryn was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins T-cell lymphoma, the site said. Later that year, a benefit was held in her honor to defray medical costs. Laura baked 250 cupcakes for the event.

"As a result, Cupcakes for Courage was born out of a passion for baking and to raise money for cancer research," the website says. "With every purchase, a portion of the proceeds goes to helping find a cure while also raising awareness of this illness which affects so many like Kathryn."

The sisters have another Courageous Bakery in Oak Brook.