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We had a guy demolish and build a new building in Downtown (I mean Uptown) Normal to house his new restaurant, Medici. He spent several million dollars on the two-story brick building with an outdoor patio on the second floor. The tables are some really expensive wood and the decor includes a dead tree that spans both stories. Even though it is packed with college students every night and with the local elite for lunch and dinner every day, it is still hemoraging money from what I gather. It's a really cool place, but even doing the maximum business possible it is still experiencing an operating loss. It's too bad really, I like the place.