A Black-owned restaurant opens in a space with a racist past

from The Business of Food with Steve Alexander · host WGN Radio

In 1916, a beautiful Mediterranean Revival building was finished at what became the South Shore Country Club. The 65-acre site on Chicago’s Lake Front at 71st Street was created as a social and recreational haven for white Protestants. No Blacks, no Jews, and for many years, no Catholic Italians. Times changed and the country club […]

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