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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Katie Anthony

Bob Chinn, founder of famed Wheeling crab house, dead at 99

Bob Chinn, whose Bob Chinn’s Crab House on Milwaukee Avenue in Wheeling brought droves of customers to the northwest suburbs and became one of the nation’s highest-grossing restaurants, died Friday at 99. 

“He lived life to the fullest in every situation,” said Carly LeTourneau, Mr. Chinn’s granddaughter.

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