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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Roeder

Chicago’s Big Monster Toys lays off staff, shuts future operations

A woman walks her dog by Big Monster Toys’ iconic large door at its office in West Loop, 21 S. Racine Ave., on Tuesday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

One of Chicago’s most peculiar businesses, Big Monster Toys, has shut its giant yellow door to new business on the Near West Side and laid off its employees.

The toy design studio at 21 S. Racine Ave. features an unusual entryway that has inspired curiosity, selfies and spur-of-the-moment knocks from passersby. But it wasn’t set up for people to drop in.

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