Lincoln Square Chamber Of Commerce: Chicago Film Director Runs Secret VHS Video Store In Back Room Of Borelli's Pizzeria

Press release from Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce:

July 15, 2021

by Tom Barnas / WGN-9 / July 15, 2021

If you are of a certain age, you remember the excitement and anticipation of a trip to the video store. 

Greeted by the smell of popcorn and the latest movies playing on the TVs, the store carefully dressed with a library of movies we could only wish was ours. 
 
Those days are long gone and today we’re left with an abundance of the cold and sterile process of picking a movie from streaming platforms, robbing us and our kids (they would have loved it, right?) of this rite of passage.
 
Leave it to a film director to bring it back in the best way possible —  by placing a video store in the back of a classic, old-school, family-owned pizza joint.  Read more and Watch HERE

This press release was produced by Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.