Say It Ain't So...

I met a girl in San Antonio a few years ago who grew up in Madison, WI, and had been through Rochelle many times and dined at the Beacon. We fondly reminisced about Grasshoppers and the carrots, olives and crackers served with the scoop of cheese in silver dishes. Unfortunately, I just read this:

Rochelle lighthouse no longer a Beacon
By BrianButko
Friend Road Dog just wrote about his recent trip from Dixon to DeKalb, Illinois. Sorry to say he reports that the The Beacon Inn restaurant in Rochelle is now a Chinese buffet and that the lighthouse was removed from its sign. Here’s a view in 2005, after it had been remodeled from the original.


Bummer.