Store Features
- Drive Thru Available
- Gift Cards Available
- DQ Treats
Location
950 E. 9th St
Lockport, IL 60441
Phone: 815-838-1701
www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/store-details/6240
Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants. The soft serve formula was first developed in 1938 by John Fremont “Grandpa” McCullough (1871‒1963), and his son Alex McCullough. They convinced friend and customer Herb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois. On the first day of sales, Noble dished out more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours. Noble and the McCulloughs went on to open the first Dairy Queen store in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.
