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Transcript: Serving Up More Than Soul Food at Edna's Restaurant
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- March 9, 1996
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Edna's Soul Food Restaurant in Chicago serves up history with its biscuits
and gravy. Opened in the '60s, it was a stopping place for Martin
Luther King, Jr., and many politicos throughout the decades.
SUSAN STAMBERG, Host: Madison Street in Chicago is a dividing line.
You can get on to Madison Street from Grant Park near Lake Michigan
and drive in a straight line from a pretty tony neighborhood, through
some rehabilitated areas, and then hit blocks of vacant lots, boarded-