The Public Landing Restaurant
 and Banquet facility

In beautiful downtown Lockport Illinios. 
We are located at the intersection of  State Street and 8TH street. The restaurant is west of the parking lot, across the train tracks and through the Gaylord Building entrance.

    

  
get directions Here


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For those who did not know, for several month the Rt 7 / 9th street Bridge was closed . This giant bridge was a major link across the Des plains River. The good news is that it has been resurfaced and traffic is back to normal.

Review:

Public Landing Restaurant :
Regional American Cooking

This is a classic building---a 160-year-plus-old gem with limestone walls and great arching windows. Add to that fine American food and first-rate service, and you have one of the best south suburban restaurants around. There's much ado here about regional American cooking---Lake Superior whitefish en papillote, for example---but we've enjoyed creations like house-made blackened chicken spring rolls, which hardly fall into that category. You might also encounter lobster-stuffed ravioli in brown butter-cream sauce, citrus-glazed Long Island duckling and free-range chicken breast stuffed with andouille sausage, smoked Gouda and spinach. If it happens to be available, don’t miss the bread pudding with whiskey sauce.

-Chicago Sun Times

 

 

Public Landing Restaurant
and Banquet Center
is rated
 
“Excellent”

by 
Zagat Survey

The Public Landing Restaurant 
and Banquet Center
is housed in the 

 Historic Gaylord Building
  in Lockport Illinois,
which is one of only 28  National Trust Sites in the entire country.
(view our history here)

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In addition to the 
Public Landing Restaurant 
and Banquet Rooms 

the GAYLORD BUILDING 
has ongoing exhibits include:

 "Illinois Passage: Connecting the Continent" in the ground-floor gallery; 

"Celebrating Twenty Years: The Gaylord Building on the Public Landing, 1987-2007" in the second-floor gallery; and 

Edward Ranney's Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor photos in the third-floor gallery.

For more information about the buildings galleries please call
(815) 588-1100. 
Hours for building galleries 
(not for restaurant)
are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays and closed on Mondays.

 

Book your Banquets 
and 
Events with us

Birthdays, Showers,, Weddings, Anniversaries,  Religious occasions, reunions, funeral luncheons, not for profit groups, Corporate Functions, and even Tupperware parties or use us for home parties or Real Estate Open Houses or  Mary Kay Cosmetic parties or Pampered Chef  

(any reason a group of people need to get together )


 
The little `Settlement Village' in front of the Public Landing Restaurant has moved.

The small park just in front of the Public Landing Restaurant and Banquet Center once had a reconstructed `Settlement Village'; which  was  `collected' and placed there in 1973. There were 12 buildings, six original. A blacksmith shop, barn and others were replicas constructed with original lumber and materials.

Many area schools  visited these buildings on field trips to get an idea what life was like on the Illinois prairies back in the 1800s. The village featured an real 1830s log cabin, as well as a 19th century schoolhouse, and train depot.

The Buildings were in need of repair, and an idea to make a more open space was decided upon. The center will have a statue of Abraham Lincoln. And the collection of buildings have found a new home.

We will miss the unusual village. Often during the day on weekends the performers who dressed in period outfits would come into the restaurant for a break, coffee, conversation and peach cobbler! They loved our peach cobbler.

We look forward to the new  landscape design and to the new statue, and invite you to watch with us the new parks progress,.

 

Public Landing Restaurant  200 W 8th St  Lockport, IL 60441  (815) 838-6500