Angela Burke

Owner Constance Simms-Kincaid stands prepares togo food orders at her restaurant 5 Loaves Eatery Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago.

Launching websites, loan applications: How FoodLab Chicago helps South Side restaurants weather pandemic

January 18, 2022 at 6:17 p.m.

For many restaurants, swapping the white-tablecloth aesthetic for dining tables lined with takeout boxes has been essential to survival during the pandemic. Servers used to buzz around the 30-seat dining...

Senior mechanic Vernon Harris is a longtime Parker House Sausage Co. employee.

Parker House Sausage began with $10 and a family recipe. 102 years later, it’s a Chicago icon — and one of America’s oldest Black-owned businesses.

December 27, 2021 at 11:17 a.m.

Robin McFolling is Chicago's sausage queen. Heiress of the legendary Parker House Sausage Co., McFolling is the third generation to reign over her family's centenarian South Side sausage factory, where...

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