Venus Restaurant in Park Ridge’s Uptown to close

A Park Ridge restaurant is set to close after a 30-year run in the Uptown area, according to a letter from the restaurant’s owners. In a May 15 letter to its customers, the owner of Venus Szechuan & Mandarin Restaurant thanked them for their years of dining at the restaurant but said that running a restaurant had become less profitable after the pandemic. “Things have changed now: inflation has brought us high food and labor costs; high interest rates are forcing people to cut their spending; skyrocketing rents and property...