BUILDING EXPLOSION-NAPERVILLE,IL (gigis restaurant)

Gigis Restaurant-Naperville,IL
111th & Rt.59
2 Employees suffered serious burns in this explosion & fire. 1 was airlifted by helicopter to loyola's burn unit from edwards hospital.

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Two men were burned late Wednesday during an explosion and fire at a west suburban Naperville restaurant.

Emergency personnel responded at 10:53 p.m. to an explosion at Gigis Restaurant on the 2700 block of West 111th Street (Hassert Boulevard), Naperville police Cmdr. Joel Truemper said. Emergency crews work the scene of an explosion and fire Wednesday night into Thursday morning at GiGi's Restaurant in Naperville. Two men were injured in the explosion. One man was severely burned and the other was walking around. Both men were believed to be employees and were taken to Edward Hospital in Naperville, Truemper said.
Truemper said six police units and multiple fire trucks remained at the battling the blaze early Thursday. The fire has not been extinguished as of 12:30 a.m. and has already caused substantial damage. The blaze did not spread to nearby stores in the strip mall but smoke damage is expected.

The restaurants Web site describes the eatery as a pancake house specializing in lunch and dinner -- especially Greek foods. Owner and host Peter Ladias has more than 30 years of restaurant experience, the site said.

The origin of the explosion was not immediately known and a police and fire task force has been sent to the scene to evaluate the cause and whether the explosion is suspicious.

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[Otis10000222]

i remember when this happened. my friend was crying because this was his favorite restaurant. did anyone get killed? i hope not =/

god damn it was a good restaurant i hope they rebuild it.... was this on the news? i'd like to see this.

[7089540230]

the owner tried to blow the building up on purpose for insurance money....i dont think it will be re-opening

[Disfik]

one of the guys suffered extreme burns and is still in the hospital. if this guy dies, the chef will be charged for man slaughter and will go to prison.

[7089540230]

Well when you attempt to blow up & then burn down your own place for insurance money...They should of had a "Plan B" like maybe this is a bad idea and the State Fire Marshall is a very smart guy & will figure it out? WOW!

[bjonzey2]

Well, I'm not real sure what happened, exactly, I live in that neighborhood, and there's are so many rumors as to what happened, the first one I heard was a gas leak, and the most recent one was that the restaurant was bankrupt and the owner blew it up, because he didn't want to have to deal with filing bankruptcy,and now the owners going to go to jail after he reovers, these both could be lies, but if that's true, he's ruined the lives of 2 people.

[7089540230]

yea he tried to blow the place up..those dam saganaki bombs

[oldfart387]

Why would you try to blow it up while people were there? If the injured guy died, I hope they gave the owner a death sentence.

[donkeydonker69]

I heard that Gigi's was a meth lab...

[MMMMMDIESEL]

Peter H. Ladias, 70, of Palos Hills surrendered June 25 at Will County Jail in Joliet. He is charged with felony aggravated arson in connection with the Oct. 29, 2008 fire that gutted Gigi's Restaurant and Pancake House. Ladias is the owner of the restaurant.

[aerobfa]

Almost two years later, the whole strip mall is still closed. It doesn't bother me, I'll just go to Plainfield's Delight a mile down the street.

[chillStonner420]

i used to go there!!

[GTD69]

u guys are from naperville??

[ImTylerTheCat]

lol this is right by high meadow right?

i remember driving past that on my way to a buddies house and being like wtf... whys it all boarded up? now i guess i know why.