Best of the South Side In Memoriam 2020 – South Side Weekly
A tribute to a few of the amazing people and places that left us in 2020, published in South Side Weekly's Best of the South Side issue.
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A tribute to a few of the amazing people and places that left us in 2020, published in South Side Weekly's Best of the South Side issue.
All of us have been witness to the slow erasure of a once legendary building. Often these structures appear to have been resuscitated by their inevitable transition into something vapid like a boutique dental office, a pet grooming salon, or a chain restaurant, when really, they've entered the Sunken Place. The building at 1449 S. Michigan, once the headquarters of the groundbreaking recording company Vee-Jay Records, had indeed seen its share of dark days; but now it's home to the not-for-profit Overflow Coffee. For this edifice, the arrival of the coffee shop came with a renovation of its s...