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Gardner is a small mid-west town about southwest of Chicago on Historic U. S. 66.

Gardner hosts an annual celebration on the first weekend in May in conjunction with the Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor.

Gardner is known on U. S. 66 for its historic 2-cell jail and the Riviera Restaurant, east of town, a prohibition hangout of Al Capone with a beer cooler located in a basement vault.

On June 8th, 2010, the Rivera Restaurant was destroyed by a fire that broke out in the basement.