Pitching in


CHRIS FOX PHOTO

Billy Bricks Wood Fired Pizza and its customers recently began donating meals to first responders around Chicagoland. Customers can choose to make a $10 donation, which provides a bag lunch with an entrée, side and a cookie bite. Billy Bricks matches each customer’s donation with a 9-inch individual pizza. The business, which opened its first store in Lombard almost 15 years ago, now features eight locations, including two in Lombard. Pictured (left to right) at the downtown Lombard location at 132 W. St. Charles Road are founder Bill Wilson (the Billy in Billy Bricks), Jose Arce—the business’s first employee and current general manager of the downtown Lombard location—and Ric Gruber, who is Bill’s son and Billy Bricks’ development director.