While closed, the building serves as an example of the large-scale restaurants and lounges that defined the Lincoln Highway's landscape as nightly destinations in the mid-twentieth century. The building was first occupied by the Lincoln Heights Restaurant, which was constructed between 1952 and 1958. In 1963, August and Grace Bamonti expanded beyond their 1938 tavern on the east side of Chicago Heights to this location on the Lincoln Highway, opening Savoia's Restaurant. The existing, spinning sign was installed by the Bamontis and originally read "Savoia's Italian Restaurant."

 

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