Wesley's Shoes celebrates 50 years of 'sit-and-fit' business
No business, and especially no Black-owned business on the South Side of Chicago, makes it 50 years without an interesting history behind it. Wesley's Shoes, 1506 E. 55th St., one of the city's premier independent footwear sellers, owned and operated by native South Sider Bruce Wesley, is no exception. His father, Alvin Wesley, founded the store in Roseland after moving to Chicago from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. "He'd always tell the story that he had no shoes when he was young," Wesley said. Not content to work in sugarcane ...
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