Mabe's Deli opening on 75th Street on Saturday

Got a new eatery coming to 75th Street. My last visit to Lem's Bar-B-Q I noticed the sign. Look at it this way another option with Soul Vegetarian on 75th/Indiana, Brown Sugar Bakery doors away, and of course with Lem's across the street. I'm liking some of the options that you can see on their website that it's worth paying a visit in the future.

Below is a press release sent to us:

Commercial property for sale on 75th Street

For those you looking for some real estate here's a professional building to purchase at 200 E. 75th Street listed for $725k and yes although three-quarters of a millions dollars. Woah.

Some history is that it was a medical building that was owned by a medical group who eventually sold the building. There was a dentistry and dermatology practice here at one point. Current several businesses occupy the space here.

Also I want to note remember in 2009 75th Street was referred to as "Renaissance Row" a bastion of "Black Wall Street". Perhaps this is one piece of real estate where we need to capitalize on that.

Anyway Worlee shared some pics with a link to the listing over as his Concerned Citizens of Chatham fb page.

The necessity of a "Black Wall Street"

The vision of a district consisting of mostly black-owned businesses similar to what once existed in Tulsa, Oklahoma before a race riot destroyed it in the 1920s.

Black Wall Street was created to sustain and strengthen Black businesses in the Black community and in other communities through economic development. To this end, the State of Illinois House of Representatives and Senate recognized the potential to recreate on Stony Island Avenue and 75th Streets east of the Dan Ryan Expressway, the positive aspects of the historic Black Wall Street in Tulsa, by issuing resolutions proclaiming the areas Black Wall Street Chicago Districts. “It’s important for Black businesses to support each other. It’s important that Stony Island businesses support each other and keep black dollars in the Black community,” says Angela Williams, executive director of the South East Chamber of Commerce.

The mission of Black Wall Street District Chicago is to enhance and strengthen Illinois’ premiere African American spiritual arts and commerce district through on going promotion, advocacy, business development, and community relations; to make the Black Wall Street District a vital clean safe and attractive business district for the enjoyment of members and visitors and to institute and maintain a method of exchanging and interchanging business information.

Creating a Black Wall Street district is necessary because, “When we go outside our community, we take away from what our ancestors worked so hard to create,” Williams said. There are also Black Wall Street Districts established in California; Minnesota and Georgia. The organization’s National Summit Agenda will be held in Chicago this year August 20-23 at various locations throughout the city.

Posted at the Chicago Citizen Newspaper website on August 4, 2010.

ABC 7 finds 75th Street

The local ABC affiliate ABC 7 has created a new program Heart and Soul that taps into the African American community in Chicago. One of the stories that was featured in the first installment was 75th Street which is being called "Black Wall Street" because of the number of African American owned businesses

It starts at 13:28 in the video below - Levois