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Erick Williams

CTL-P-0074 · Person

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chef, Virtue Restaurant

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chef, Virtue Restaurant

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Erick Williams is Owner and Chef of Virtue and founder of Virtue Hospitality Group; Virtue opened in 2018 in Chicago's Hyde Park; in 2022 he became the first Black chef to win the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Great Lakes (Virtue Restaurant, tier 2).

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