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REVIEW MARCH 6, 2024
Casa Humilde comes to Forest Park
Brothers Javier and Jose Lopez journey from homebrewing to opening their first independent restaurant
D209 robotics team heads to state competition PAGE 13
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By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
In the summer of 2015, brothers Javier and Jose Lopez started brewing beer out of their childhood home in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood. The decade before that, Jose had managed a band and worked in food service. Javier was an IBEW Local 134 electrician with a passion for craft beer. Both were looking for something new, so they bought a stove-top brewing kit for $600 and started making beer as Casa Humilde. As Javier and Jose started offering their beer at art shows and festivals, plus catering at backyard parties and pig roasts, they invested another $30,000 into their at-home operation. In 2019, the brothers joined District Brew Yards, a collective of breweries that opened a beer hall that year in Chicago and added a Wheeling location in 2022. See HUMILDE on page 3
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