Chase Mission Main Street Grant nominees need YOUR vote

Last year, Dat Donut won the Chase Bank Mission Main Street Grant.for small businesses.

The 2015 round of voting has begun, and several businesses in 60619 have submitted their entries.

You can vote for all of them, but only one vote for a specific business from your individual Faceboook Account. To find businesses in our area, click this link and type in 60619 (or other ZIP Code)

Top vote getters as of last Wednesday, 4pm include Piece of the Pie, Brown Sugar Bakery, and Do-Gooder Consulting.

Disclaimer: Do-Gooder Consulting is owned by JP Paulus, a writer here at The Sixth Ward.

Please vote for all of our businesses. We know it's possible for an area resident to get a grant!

Voting ends THIS Friday. We encourage you to also share links on your Facebook page and tag your friends!

• Aaelite Towing Service, LLC.
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Transportation
• 9 votes
  

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• Bonfire Grill LLC
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Restaurants / Bars
• 123 votes
  

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• Brown Sugar Bakery & Cafe
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Restaurants / Bars
• 49 votes
  

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• Do-Gooder Consulting
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Professionals & Business Service Providers
• 41 votes
  

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• DT Sports Group LLC
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Other
• 0 votes
  

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• Kay Ray's World of Learning Academy & Community Center
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Education & Training
• 24 votes
  

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• Kingdom Elegance
• Chicago, IL, IL
  60619
• Other
• 3 votes
  

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• Lure Chaussures, Inc
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Retailers
• 1 vote
  

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• medical professionals for home health care inc
• chicago, IL
  60619
• Healthcare
• 87 votes
  

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• ORIGINAL SOUL VEGETARIAN
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Restaurants / Bars
• 26 votes
  

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• Small Business Micro System Solutions
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Professionals & Business Service Providers
• 0 votes
  

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• Tea & Crumpets
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Education & Training
• 2 votes
  

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• The Peace of Pie, Inc
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Other
• 166 votes
  

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• Whatsoever Things Are Lovely
• Chicago, IL
  60619
• Other
• 16 votes

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Groupon for Soul Vegtarian East!

As of this posting, this deal is only good for another 9 hours.

Soul Vegetarian East Groupon

This is the restaurant at 75th & Indiana, and has been featured/mentioned several times here.

Let us know if you got this offer, or if you think of any businesses that would benefit from it.

Park Manor businesses featured on NextTV

The Chicago Urban League's NExtTV featured two of our businesses in a story about Carol Mosley Braun.

The former IL Senator is starting her own brand of healthy food products, called Ambassador Organics.

The Urban league showed businesses on 75th street to contrast "food deserts" with junk food vs. healthy food choices. Visuals of Big Sam were use as an example of "bad food" while SOul Vegetarian East/Eternity Juice Bar, with their outside fruit & vegetable displays, were considered examples of "good food" that is desired by many African Americans, who might otherwise travel to the suburbs (Something Ambassador Brown noticed)

(Neither store was mentioned by name, but anyone who passes by that street would instantly recognize the businesses)

What do you think? Unfair use of visuals? Or creative way to illustrate differences?

Local Memorial Day Food Options

During the Memorial day weekend go purchase good from the following stores/restaurant.

Brown Sugar Bakery- Cakes, Pies, baked goods

Dat Donut- Some of the best donuts

Chatham Food Market- Get all your grocery items

Wings Around the World- 25 flavors from 9 countries. Great for those days you don't want to cook and holiday parties

Quench- Turkey Burgers, Jerk Chicken tacos

Soul Vegetarian East- Take your vegetarian and vegan friends out for a holiday meal

Lem's Barbeque- Some of the best ribs in Chicago

Reggios Pizza- Chicago Southside style pizza

Capt. Curts Barbeque- Some of the best ribs in Chicago

There may be more and if you are aware, please let us know.

Taste Chatham- The Pan African Cuisine Destination

Our community has become a destination point for Pan African Cuisine, dishes inspired from ingredients indigenous to the continent of Africa. So during the holiday weekend go out and taste Chatham. Here are some restaurants to try

Yassa African Restaurant - African Fusion
716 E 79th St
(773) 488-5599
Dishes from Senegal and other African Countries

Cafe Trinidad- Afro Caribbean
555 E. 75th Street
773.846.8081
Traditional Caribbean dishes

Soul Vegetarian East- Vegetarian Soul Food
205 E 75th Street
(773) 224-0104
Traditional Soul Food with a twist

Army & Lou's Restaurant- Southern Soul Food
422 E. 75th St.
773-483-3100
Traditional Soul Food dishes

Izola's Restaurant-Soul Food
522 E 79th St.
(773) 846-1484
Traditional Soul Food dishes

Captain's Hard Times Diner- Soul Food
436 E. 79th St
(773) 487-2900
Traditional Soul Food dishes

If I missed any, please feel free to add your favorite.

Update on Soul Vegetarian

We posted on Soul Vegetarian being closed due to health code violations.

Well, at least as of yesterday (Sunday, Dec 27), the restaurant was open for business.

Can't give many details beyond this...but i would like to note that this is a restaurant that has drawn people outside the neighborhood (i.e. white people), and is otherwise an example of how we can generate economic development in the neighborhood.

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