Fuentes family plans to build new restaurant

CHAMPAIGN – Victor Fuentes was 18 years old when he and his uncle opened El Torero restaurant on Nov. 5, 1998.

Now, less than nine years later, Fuentes and his family are planning to build a new and much larger El Torero restaurant a few blocks west of their current location.

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