Yorkville’s Blackstone Bar & Grille to reopen as the Silver Fox

New owner Yonas Hagos of Yorkville targets Valentine’s Day for grand opening after renovations

January 11, 2021 at 3:30 pm CST

An architectural design for the Silver Fox, a new restaurant at 600 E. Veterans Parkway in Yorkville. (Courtesy of Yorkville Economic Development Corporation)

A lot of people have asked Yonas Hagos why he wanted to buy a restaurant in the middle of a pandemic.

People thought he was “crazy,” Hagos said in an interview.

Lucas Robinson

Lucas Robinson covers politics, courts, schools and the pandemic in Kendall County and Yorkville for Shaw Media. His work has previously appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Buenos Aires Times, Open Secrets and USAToday. He grew up in Muncie, Indiana.

Yorkville’s Blackstone Bar & Grille to reopen as the Silver Fox

New owner Yonas Hagos of Yorkville targets Valentine’s Day for grand opening after renovations

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