Save-a-Lot Grocery

One early morning in March of 1962, my family was awakened by smoke and flames billowing out of our grocery store at 924 N. Hinckley. It was easy to see the beginning of this devastation because our house was directly across the street from Burton’s IGA. The state fire marshal determined later that someone had broken into the store in the middle of the night and used a device to open the safe...