In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 Josephine Wade, center, owner of Hard Time Josephine’s Cooking soul food restaurant, works on a chef’s salad with her staff in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago. Over the past 10 years as Chicago has lost more than 17 percent of its black population, one soul food place after another has closed and the surviving few like Josephine’s are struggling. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Charles Rex Arbogast
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 Josephine Wade, center, owner of Hard Time Josephine’s Cooking soul food restaurant, works on a chef’s salad with her staff in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago. Over the past 10 years as Chicago has lost more than 17 percent of its black population, one soul food place after another has closed and the surviving few like Josephine’s are struggling. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Charles Rex Arbogast
Black Restaurant Week Chicago Highlights Diversity of Black Culinary Traditions
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 Josephine Wade, center, owner of Hard Time Josephine’s Cooking soul food restaurant, works on a chef’s salad with her staff in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago. Over the past 10 years as Chicago has lost more than 17 percent of its black population, one soul food place after another has closed and the surviving few like Josephine’s are struggling. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Charles Rex Arbogast