Fransen's Bittersweet Tap: `Where friends like to meet'

Courier-News (Elgin, IL) | June 23, 2002| | Copyright

Jim Boing (from left), John Strawcutter, Tom Rehberg, Curt Lavender and Jamey Newberry swap stories and share jokes as they relax and nurse their beers on a Wednesday afternoon in late May at Fransen's Bittersweet Tap, hidden down a narrow gravel driveway off the east side of Illinois 25, just across from Bolz Road. The local watering hole was the dream of the late Arve Fransen, who longed to open a small neighborhood bar close to his home. He and his wife June did just that in 1976, transforming the 2 1/2 -car garage attached to their home into the Bittersweet. Randy Camp and Deena Hile ...

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