Restaurant owner threatens to leave if city revives downtown club

Restaurant owner threatens to leave if city revives downtown club

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- "MARK MY WORDS," the owner of Central Illinois chicken restaurant chain Pop-Up Chicken Shop wrote on Facebook, calling out the city of Peoria and Mayor Rita Ali. Aaron Francis, who opened the Peoria chicken location in the Warehouse District last summer, wrote on Facebook saying if the city reopens Big Al's, the club on Jefferson Avenue, he will withdraw Pop-Up Chicken Shop from Peoria. "If the city is openly trying to wor…