By Jeff Vorva
After the Orland Park Village Board voted Monday night to allow for a special use program, it set the wheels in motion for a Portillo’s Hot Dogs drive through to be built at 20 Orland Square Drive, the site of the shuttered Denny’s.
It will be a 3,305-foot square building and will have two drive-through lanes.
There is a Portillo’s across the street from the Orland Park border at 15900 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park that has a sit-down restaurant to go with a drive-through.
“I have no problem with Orland Park residents using the Orland Park Portillo’s instead of Tinley Park’s Portillo’s,” Pekau said with a smile.
The Orland Park Portillo’s could open in 2025.