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Brown’s Chicken may taste better, but it’s no longer available anywhere in Indiana.

The 67-year-old fried chicken chain, which was widely popular in the Chicago area in the 1970s and 1980s, has closed its last remaining location in Northwest Indiana. A Brown’s Chicken & Pasta restaurant at 8845 Indianapolis Boulevard shuttered after the franchisee lost a lease, company spokesman Tim Kennefick said. It had been on the boulevard since at least the 1990s.

Brown’s Chicken & Pasta was known for deep-fried mushrooms, a 1989 commercial starring actor Steve Carell, and its buttermilk-fried cholesterol-free chicken that “tastes better,” according to the jingle on television. It also catered and served family-style pasta dishes, Italian beef sandwiches, Italian sausage, Chicago dogs, corn fritters and atomic cake.

At one time, Brown’s also had restaurants in Hammond and Merrillville.

The Chicago-based company had more than 100 locations until most closed after the infamous Brown’s Chicken massacre in 1993 in Palatine, where robbers bound seven people in a walk-in freezer and murdered them.

Now Brown’s has about 25 restaurants left, mostly in the Chicago suburbs. The closest is in Chicago Heights.