Rolling Meadows’ Umacamon Japanese Kitchen upholds the suburban izakaya tradition

And capably covers all the bases, with sushi, ample comfort foods, and uncommon specialties from the island of Kyushu. Most people in Chicago don't consider Japanese food in regional terms, but when Koichiro "K.C." Kimori was plotting to open Umacamon, his Rolling Meadows restaurant, he was thinking about his hometown, Fukuoka. Five years ago he was a typical salaryman working at the Elk Grove Village branch of seafood megadistributor True World Foods.…