Chicago area auto dealer Maury Ettleson, known by generations of Chicagoans for his TV commercials alongside business partner Nick Celozzi for their Elmhurst, Illinois Chevrolet dealership "where you ...

Maurice “Maury” Ettleson, 93, longtime car dealer, community supporter, and devoted family man, passed away peacefully July 16, 2025 at his home in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Maury built a legacy that ...

Few Chicago TV commercials ever really reach iconic status. It’s a small club. Car dealer Maury Ettleson was definitely a member. The tagline he proclaimed with his business partner Nick Celozzi was ...

Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet in Elmhurst ranked as the largest dealership in Illinois for the second straight year in 1988, based on car and truck sales and service revenue of $90.6 million, up from $82 ...

Nick Celozzi and Maury Ettleson were fighting a bad case of the giggles. Outside their Chevrolet dealership in Elmhurst, Ill., they tried to keep straight faces for the taping of one of their infamous ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Nick Celozzi and Maury Ettleson are fighting a bad case of ...

Frank DeBartolo didn’t need an economist to tell him that there was a recession in 1982. DeBartolo is the sales manager at Celozzi-Ettleson Chevrolet Inc., a new- and used-car dealership in the heart ...

Nick Celozzi had a dream that his son, Nick Celozzi II, would go to law school. But no. Young Celozzi wanted to go to Hollywood and become a movie star. "My parents were not supportive," young Celozzi ...