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Walter Green Jr., retired federal EEOC manager, dies at 91

Walter Green Jr., a retired federal affirmative action manager and employment consultant, died on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. He was 91.

Hyde Park businesses Wesley's Shoe Corral, Cholie's Pizza surviving COVID-19 pandemic

Wendell Hutson Cholie’s Pizza, 1601 E. 53rd St., has been a staple in Hyde Park ever since Soledad Madriqal and her husband opened it in in 1995. COVID through a small-biz lens Wendell Hutson It wasn’t long ago that Wesley’s Shoe Corral snagged top honors as the No. 1 independent retail shoe store in Illinois for customer service. The store, 1506 E. 55th St., received the award at the 2019 Gold Medal Service Awards sponsored by trade magazine Footwear Insight. (It came in 13th nationally.)  That was before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. Now sales are down 24 percent and the only thing owner Bruce Wesley is focused on these days is keeping his family-owned business open.

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 fields for for the rest of his life, the elder Wesley joined the Army, becoming a first sergeant. He migrated north in the late 1950s and took odd jobs before working in a shoe store owned by Harry and Joe Divine, second-generation Jewish merchants who owned stores across Chicago, including Hyde Park.