A new carryout restaurant called Big JJ Fish & Chicken will open in the former location of Seaboat at 1114 N. Market St., C.

The owner, Hisham "John" Rosoul, looks for it to open before the end of the month.

Rosoul has a restaurant by the same name in Peoria. He said his new location in Champaign will have the same menu of chicken and fish – including perch, catfish and walleye – plus such sides as gizzards and fries and cake for dessert.

New sweets for the holidays

Pies by Inge, 212 W. Washington St., Monticello, is adding homemade candies and cookies for the holiday season.

The cookies will be sold individually, or in trays and decorative containers, bakery co-owner Jennifer Johns said.

The candy selection includes peanut brittle and three flavors of a white chocolate sheet candy: peppermint, toffee and chocolate/peppermint.

Johns, who bought the bakery this past summer with her mother, Redda Lively, offers about 50 kinds of pies, 10 kinds of cake (among them the seasonal best-seller, Irish apple cake) and 15 kinds of cookies and brownies. Holiday candies and cookies will also be available after Thanksgiving, and pie orders are being taken for Thanksgiving through Tuesday, Johns said.

For information, call 419-2409.

New bar opening soon

A new bar called Last Chance Saloon will open next week in Tolono.

It will be in a former bar building at 102 N. Long St. that has been vacant for about six months, owners Nicole Bokor and her fiance, Bryan Graham, said.

The building has undergone an extensive remodeling, and Graham said he hopes to be able to open by Tuesday.

"We took a distressed property here in Tolono and did a lot of work inside and tried to clean it up," Graham said. "We pretty much gutted the place."

Graham, who worked as a painting and drywall contractor, will run the bar, and Bokor, an administrative assistant for the village of Tolono, will help out in the evenings, the couple said.

Initially, it will serve drinks and light snacks such as chips and frozen pizzas, Graham said.

But he plans to bring in a flat grill and two fryers in the spring to expand the menu and make the bar a place where families can go for dinner, he added.

BodyWork expands again

BodyWork Associates, a group practice of 18 massage therapists, has opened its fourth Champaign-Urbana location on the mezzanine level of the new University of Illinois Activities and Recreation Center, 201 E. Peabody Drive, C.

It is Bodyworks' second campus area location, with the other one at the Illini Union, according to owner Douglas Nelson.

The new location is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Parking is available in a lot at Peabody Drive and First Street.

The phone number is 239-5865.

Are you opening a new business or changing something at your existing business? Debra Pressey can be reached by phone at 351-5229 or 800-252-3346; by e-mail at dpressey@news-gazette.com; or by regular mail at The News-Gazette, c/o It's Your Business column, P.O. Box 677, Champaign, IL 61824-0677.