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Onward restaurant owner countersues Loyola in eviction fight, says university owes him for COVID shutdown

By Scott Holland | Thursday, Oct 7, 2021 @ 2:16pm

Chicago restaurateur Michael Olszewski says Loyola should abate all the rent he owes for his upscale restaurant Onward, because it was the unversity's refusal to allow him to reopen that left him unable to pay the $10,000 a month rent he owed for the restaurant the university recruited him to open in the Loyola-owned building.
Onward restaurant owner says Loyola University shut him down over COVID, now seeking to evict him with no recourse

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Jul 22, 2021 @ 2:01pm

Chicago restaurateur Michael Olszewski says Loyola recruited him to open a fine-dining restaurant in their new hotel building in Rogers Park, but is now seeking to evict him after blocking the restaurant from earning any money since the onset of COVID.