Skokie's Village Creamery Ice Cream Has Closed

Village Creamery, a family-owned ice cream shop which hand-makes its ice creams, many in exotic flavors, has closed its Skokie location, an employee at the Niles location confirmed.

The Niles location, at 8000 Waukegan Road (at Oakton Street), remains open. 

The Skokie shop, at 4558 Oakton Street, at the corner of Kenton Avenue, won Skokie Patch's 2012 Readers's Choice award for Best Ice Cream and Fro Yo, when it garnered an impressive 79 percent of the vote.

Village Creamery, owned by the Valeroso family, has earned a local reputation for making creative flavors, such as some based on, and incorporating, Girl Scout cookies. They also have many flavors inspired by the Philippines, such as ube, mangosteen, buko pandan and lychee. 

Earlier: Village Creamery hand-makes exotic flavors

The shop also makes a Filipino specialty called halo halo, an dessert featuring shaved ice, purple yam and purple yam ice cream, beans, sugar palm, tapioca, evaporated milk and natade coco.

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