New Restaurant Opens In Previously Vacant Ashburn Building Purchased From Cook County Land Bank
By Evelyn Holmes, ABC 7 News | February 23, 2024 (Click Here For Original Article and View the Video Broadcast) CHICAGO (WLS) -- The South Side neighborhood of Ashburn is stronger as a community Friday as they celebrated the opening of Jerk Soule restaurant. "This is beautiful, this is so needed," said resident Angel Harrell. The grand opening of the Jamaican-soul food fusion eatery near 82nd and Kedzie is the dream of self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur Judith Smith as a way to honor her late father, who was a soul food cook, and her love of Jamaican food. "He was a [...]