:( After posting, I re-checked that listing on Zillow--as I had done all of this research back in April--and saw it is now marked as "Contingent", but I hadn't thought to search to see if they had already announced anything. That's sad... I am now seriously considering flying out to Chicago next week to frequent there until they close.
So, I guess that means we are down to three remaining restaurants, with Westchester Inn being the only one that still has fruit dumplings (boiled, not fried), which I have found to be extremely difficult to find anywhere... I went to a town in Texas that is 90% Czech and, while people knew of and loved fruit dumplings, they didn't know of anywhere locally that had them :(. (I ended up not even managing to get Czech food in that town, due to conflicts with the opening hours.)
The bottom of that thread also mentions Café Prague a lot... I realized that that was likely the fourth restaurant mentioned by the owner of the catering outfit (as the hours check out, being closed on both Monday and Tuesday). Their Czech menu is a subset of their full menu, but is way more complete than anywhere I have so far found in the US outside of Chicagoland and is frankly competitive with McCook.
So, I guess that means we are down to three remaining restaurants, with Westchester Inn being the only one that still has fruit dumplings (boiled, not fried), which I have found to be extremely difficult to find anywhere... I went to a town in Texas that is 90% Czech and, while people knew of and loved fruit dumplings, they didn't know of anywhere locally that had them :(. (I ended up not even managing to get Czech food in that town, due to conflicts with the opening hours.)