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Local favorite Today’s Hair set to close this month in Jefferson Park
by BRIAN NADIG
Carol Corston grew up in Jefferson Park and started cutting hair in high school during the early 1970s. On Dec. 28, she will be closing Today’s Hair, 5637 W. Lawrence Ave., which she has owned for more than 30 years.
“I’m going to be at home with my father who’s over 100,” Corston said of her immediate retirement plans. She added that she was unable to find someone to take over the salon and that current plans call for it to completely shut down unless the landlord can find a new operator.
John Manchur, whose hair has been cut by Corston for 30 years, said that the community is fortunate to have such a “charming and caring” business owner.
“She made house calls” to elderly clients who couldn’t get to the shop. “Who does that?”
Corston, who graduated from Beaubien Elementary School and Schurz High School, said that she learned how to cut hair at a salon during high school. “They started training me, and I loved it,” she said, adding that it was a job where she could get paid, talk and meet new people all at the same time. “I thought I had died and gone to heaven.”
Corston worked at several salons, including The Shoppe in Jefferson Park and some in the suburbs, before she acquired Today’s Hair in 1992. The business had four owners before she bought it and is believed to have been around since the 1960s.
Corston said that she decided to keep the name “Today’s Hair” because there was a neon sign with that name in the window.
“I thought it’d be silly to change the name,” Corston said. The sign is still there.
Corston also owned the property but sold it after her husband Bill passed away about 7 years ago. Bill and Carol (Felsenthal) grew up near each other in Jefferson Park.
Corston said that she has been cutting the hair of some clients for more than 40 years.
“I’ll miss … all my customers for sure, not the paperwork” and other headaches that go along with operating a business, she said.
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