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Army & Lou's

CTL-PL-0015 · Place

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Combined Graph record U-00282 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0015. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

historic soul food, closed 2011

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historic soul food, closed 2011

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Army and Lou's was a Black-owned soul food restaurant operating at 422 E. 75th St. on Chicago's South Side, and it closed in 2011, per the Chicago Citizen newspaper (Citizen Newspaper Group), fetched in full (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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