CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE | JANUARY | JANUARY CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE MAYORAL SPOTLIGHT ON AMARA ENYIA Ben Joravsky | Anya Davidson 10 independent music venues band together Mark Guarino 26 Black Between 2010 and 2017, Chicago saw the loss of black residents at higher rates than other major cities. Is the city’s segregation to blame? exodus By PS13 THIS WEEK CHICAGOREADER | JANUARY | VOLUME NUMBER IN THIS ISSUE A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR WE’REHEADINGinto our third week of inten- got a challenger this year—a 19-year-old college Independent Venue League (CIVL) is no less sive election coverage here at Reader HQ, and it’s student—and residents aren’t entirely ignoring thoughtful, and its suggestion that city policy starting to get weird. Unexpected missives from the new kid. Isn’t election season just the most could be much more protective of our local public offices, strange requests from elected fun? music scene is deeply appreciated by those of us o cials. A refreshing enthusiasm for speaking We’re also looking at the mayoral race, and who came up in the clubs and bars of CIVL. to our reporters, on the record and in depth. It’s we’ve got a short interview with candidate Quick correction: last week we incorrectly a big di erence from our usual goings-on, which Amara Enyia by Ben Joravsky. In it, she outlines identified the Rogers Park clothier known to largely focus on the cuteness of certain dogs a few of her ideas. For a broader view of her cam- snakeskin-boot enthusiasts and steer-horned and whether or not we should hyphenate “face paign, we sent comics reporter Anya Davidson belt buckle fans as Jessica’s Western Wear. CITYLIFE sitting.” Should all return to normal by May. out to an event in Edgewater put on by some of Finally, I can announce with intense gratitude 04 ShopWindowComeforGorée In this issue Maya Dukmasova gives us her her north-side supporters. and no small amount of love that our very own Shop’scolorfultextilesstayforthe piercing look at the 13th Ward—Michael Madi- Of course we’re always thrilled to bring new Kate Schmidt has returned to the office! That Senegalesefood 04 SightseeingThestoryofasouth gan Country. The Illinois house speaker’s offi- writers to our pages, and Pete Saunders’s cover refreshing, clean text feeling washing over you sidedoctorwhoperformedthefi rst cemate, longtime alderman Marty Quinn, is the story this issue is a timely and compellingly right now? That’s her work. We’ve missed it, and successfulopenheartsurgery popular candidate, or so the volume of signage argued demand to look more closely at the city’s her, terribly. Welcome back, Kate! 05 PublicServiceAnnouncement in the ward would have us believe. But Quinn’s legacy of segregation. 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Physician Daniel Hale “IT’S LIKE ALL Africa in one shop,” says Williams was a pioneer Adama Ba, the owner of Gorée Shop in in many ways. Kenwood. He established his storefront, named a er an island in Senegal, in 2002. “It’s great to be in a place where I can see Africans, Indians, Chinese, cultures from all over the world,” he says. The 41-year-old studied arts and design for eight years at Senegal’s Cheikh Anta Diop University and makes many of the traditional garments he sells. “Over there we don’t use patterns, so everything you do you have to memorize.” His cli- Daniel Hale Williams COURTESYCOOKCOUNTYHEALTH ents o en have outfi ts custom-made for special occasions, a service that costs between $150 and $200. Customers can choose from a wide array AT THE INTERSECTION of 29th and Dear- stabbed in the chest in a bar fi ght and was of colorful fabrics—mudcloth, asoke, bazin, and born, down by [Daniel Hale] Williams Park taken to Provident, which unlike most hospi- 100 percent cotton wax print textile—imported in the Douglas community area, stood the tals of the time admitted African- Americans. from nations like Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Provident Hospital and Training School The wound initially appeared superficial and the Ivory Coast, and stacked in piles in the Association. There, pioneering African- to Williams. Overnight, however, Cornish’s store. American physician Daniel Hale Williams heartbeat grew weaker. Ba has dressed American Idol contestant both established the fi rst integrated hospi- On July 10, Williams sutured Cornish’s peri- Naima Adedapo, as well as dancers from the tal and performed the fi rst successful open- cardium, the double-walled membrane that Najwa Dance Corps of Malcolm X College and heart surgery. surrounds the heart. He worked without the Maryland’s KanKouran West African Dance Williams was born in Pennsylvania in 1856 benefi t of blood transfusion, which would not Company; the latter sported his creations during and graduated from what is now known as be used widely until Austrian Karl Landstein- a White House performance for George W. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School er identifi ed the A, B, and O blood types in Bush. Gorée Shop also sells musical instruments of Medicine in 1883. He treated whites and 1901. Williams did adopt the newfangled use like the kora, a West African harp, and cosmetics African-Americans, but segregation pro- of antiseptics. Cornish recovered and was such as raw black soap and whipped shea butters hibited him from working in a hospital, so able to leave the hospital 51 days later. with names like Black Woman, Pure Seduction, he helped to establish Provident. In 1890, Some credit Catalonian physician Fran- and I Am King. Armour & Company provided the down pay- cisco Romero with the beginning of cardi- Ba says he wants Chicago to fi nd joy in Sen- ment to purchase a three-story, 12-bed facili- ac surgery in 1801; others grant the honor egalese culture, which is why he also runs the ty in Douglas. On January 23, 1891, Provident to French military surgeon Dominique-Jean restaurant Gorée Cuisine next door. The Read- was established with a charter “to maintain Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars in 1810. er’s Mike Sula wrote that the Senegalese soul a hospital and training school for nurses in Henry C. Dalton is also rumored to have food on off er “might seem unfamiliar on paper, the City of Chicago, Illinois, for the gratu- performed a surgery similar to Williams’s at but it bridged the Atlantic hundreds of years ago itous treatment of the medical and surgical Saint Louis City Hospital in 1891. with the arrival of the fi rst African-Americans.” diseases of the sick poor.” Williams served None of these events, however, dimin- With the help of three siblings