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RR T ® 2 CHICAOREADER - AUGUST ll CITY LIFE When A Great Deal Matters, Shop Rob Paddor’s... Evanston Subaru in Skokie % % % 0% % 63 MONTHS 00ON NEW 2020’0S 0 FORESTER OUTBACK ASCENT IMPREZA 2021 SUBARU CROSSTREK 1.9% FINANCING Evanston Subaru From top le : Funeral procession for Sam Moy, “King of Chinatown,” in 1902; Grand Boulevard (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) in 1901; Lincoln Park, undated RUDOLPHFMICHAELIS/COURTESYNEWBERRYLIBRARY 9:00AM-8:00PM 9:00AM-6:00PM Monday-Friday APPOINTMENTNO REQUIRED Saturday sightseeing Social Distancing & Face Masks will be Chicago at the turn of the century Required for all Customers and Employees through the eyes of Rudolph F. Michaelis Voted “Best Auto DeAlership” From 1900 to 1905, his photographs captured slices of everyday life. By CHICAGO Voters’ Poll 2019 By JN TOP-QUALITY INSPECTED USED CARS & SUV’ S IMPORTS & DOMESTICS SUBARU FORESTERS ‘17 Honda CR-V LX AWD ........Automatic, Full Power, White, 24205A ........$17,995 ‘16 Forester Touring ..Automatic Sunroof, Leather, Silver, 23651A ........$18,995 ‘20 Kia Soul LX ..................................Manual, 8K, Cherry Black, P6475 ........$14,995 ‘17 Forester Ltd. ..........Automatic Sunroof, Leather, Silver, 24102A ........$17,995 t’s a pity that Rudolph F. Michaelis never hum scenes of the lakefront and an awkward ‘16 Honda Fit EX ................Automatic, Moonroof, 13K, Black, 24485A ........$13,995 ‘15 Forester Prem. Automatic, Sunroof, Heated Seats, Silver, 23349A ....$15,995 got his due as an artist during his time in composition of cats playing musical instru- ‘18 Hyundai Elantra Value Ed. ..Monroof, Blind Spot, Silver, 24523A ........$12,995 ‘15 Forester 2.5i ....................Automatic, Full Power, Silver, 24325A ........$14,995 IChicago. Born in Marion County, Missouri, ments. But his photographs of Chicago are ‘13 Hyundai Sante Fe 2.0T AWD .. Auto., Full Power, Black 23373B ........$11,995 SUBARU OUTBACKS in 1869 to German immigrants, Michaelis absolutely beautiful. From roughly 1900 to ‘15 Toyota Corolla LE ....................Automatic, Keyless, Silver 24504A ........$10,995 ‘16 Outback Prem. ......Automatic, All Weather, Alloys, Black, 24117A ........$17,995 ............Automatic, 1-Owner, 42K, Ruby Red, 23690A ........ ‘15 Outback Ltd. ............Automatic, Sunroof, Leather, Black, 23927A ........$17,995 came to Chicago in the early 1890s. He 1905, Michaelis took pictures of peaceful city ‘14 Buick Encore $10,995 ‘15 Kia Soul ....................................Manual, Full Power, Alien2, 21917A ..........$7,995 worked for J.P. Sullivan & Co., a south-side parks, burned-out apartment buildings, lone- SUBARU CROSSTREK / WRX / ASCENT ‘0z9 Chevy HHR LT ........................Automatic, Sunroof, Beige, 24265A ..........$6,995 ‘19 Ascent .................... 8 Passenger, Sunroof, Eyesight, 4K, Grey, P6528 ........$24,995 interior design shop. In 1905, he relocated ly streets, and bustling crowds. ‘13 Hyundai Tucson GLS ......Automatic, Full Power, Bronze, 24460A ..........$6,995 ‘18 WRX Ltd. ....................................Manual, 8K, Heritage Blue, P6547 ........$24,995 to Berkeley, California, where he set out as a While it’s too bad that Michaelis didn’t ‘08 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4Automatic, 64K Black, 24250A ......$6,995 ‘17 Crosstrek Ltd.. ............ Automatic, Leather, Sunroof, White, 34321A ........$19,995 self-employed house painter. stick with photography, we are fortunate in A+ Glass-plate photographs discovered in that his collection was donated to the Univer- RATED Michaelis’s attic in Berkeley nearly eight sity of California-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. EvanstonSubaru.com decades after his death show that Rudolph The Bancroft Library offered the Newberry 3340 OAKTON - SKOKIE • 847-869-5700 was not much of a painter. He photographed Library the photographs Michaelis shot in *Add tax, title license and $300 doc fee. 0%financing for 63 months. Monthly payment of $15.87 per $1,000 borrowed. a few of his canvases, which included ho- the midwest. v Finance on approved credit score Subject to vehicle insurance and availability. Ends 8/31/2020 ll AUGUST - CHICAOREADER 3 FOOD & DRINK Batata vada JASMINESHETH year before taking a tour of the Boka Group, with managing stints at GT Fish & Oyster, GT Prime, and Swift & Sons, and then settling in ing on it. Dabbawalas tend to develop close at Momotaro for a year. friendships with their clients because they Meanwhile, early last year she launched sometimes work the same route for years.” the Chicago chapter of the community-driven Sheth, who’s 39, grew up in Bombay (be- Queer Soup Night fundraising series, and fore it was Mumbai), but from an early age in October, worn out from the restaurant she began to accumulate knowledge of India’s business, she left Momotaro and took a more vastly di erent regional cuisines. Summers lucrative job in management consulting, with were spent at farmhouses on agricultural the aim of supporting a return to pop-ups land her father, a civil engineer, helped and more intimate and community-oriented develop, or taking long family road trips. “I cooking. had a ton of cousins all over India,” she says. But “when COVID hit, I obviously couldn’t “Visiting them over vacation really exposed host, or gather large amounts of people. I had me to di erent cuisines. Cooking and feeding been wracking my brain thinking about what people was a way to connect with folks, and I can do. It was such a challenging time for a no matter where we went, food was the cen- lot of people, and what brought me a lot of tral experience for us.” comfort was speaking to my family, cooking She learned that from her mother. “I re- my family recipes every day, and eating my member standing by her side, asking a mil- own comfort food.” lion questions. She is very much an eyeball In early May, she launched Tasting India, type of cook. You smell it, and you see the a meal delivery “dabba service,” each week texture and the color, and you determine if it announcing on her Instagram, @the_amuse- needs anything else.” bouche, a thali-style set of dishes from one Sheth left home in 2003 for New Jersey, specifi c Indian regional cuisine,