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I think that's the reason why people feel so warm when they come in. Read More. Menu Menu. Prospective Black business owners also face an additional barrier to opening their doors: Research shows Black entrepreneurs are more likely to be denied capital funding compared to white people with similar credit qualifications.

Entertainment Expand. They also spread the wealth among their counterparts, asking suppliers to offer Black-owned liquor while hosting pop-ups of Black woman-owned restaurants to serve patrons on special nights.

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Search Search. Derrick Clifton is a writer and award-winning journalist focused on the intersections of identity, culture, and social justice issues. Barnes, a corporate attorney by day, said that she and Riddle did not need to seek financing to open the bar, which was fortunate because the debt load from financing can often be unsustainably high for new business owners.

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Sign up for them. In the first installment of our series on the city's oldest gay bars, we visit the South Shore stalwart — Chicago’s only black-owned establishment of its kind. The names of select cocktails also pay homage to influential Black queer women.

Search Close. The space itself brims with Blackness, welcoming patrons walking from the outside with a logo of a Black woman donning an Afro. Many of those businesses did not survive, several others launched crowdfunding campaigns to stay alive, and only a small handful have opened their doors for the first time.

Find the top gay bars in Chicago, in Northalsted (aka Boystown) and beyond. As them. Derrick Clifton. Style Expand. They selected the former location of Joie de Vine, a lesbian bar that permanently closed during pandemic-imposed quarantines.

All of the cocktails, Barnes and Riddle said, are based on their favorite drinks from over the years. Discover the best LGBTQ+ nightlife around Chicago. Community Expand. Beauty Fashion All Style.