History doesn’t always sit politely behind glass at a museum, and Noel Brennan of CBS Chicago says one of the strangest reminders of that showed up in the south suburbs—inside a working distillery that already wears its past like décor.
Brennan’s report takes viewers inside Thornton Distilling Company, a place that doesn’t have to “pretend” it has a story, because the building’s timeline stretches back before Prohibition and straight through the era when Al Capone’s name still carried real fear.
The walls are already packed with artifacts, and owner Andrew Howell tells it like someone who has spent years pulling little pieces of the past out of dusty corners, then turning around and hanging them up for customers to see…