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Valois Cafeteria

CTL-PL-0120 · Place

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Combined Graph record U-01592 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0120. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Hyde Park cafeteria; Obama's spot

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Hyde Park cafeteria; Obama's spot

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Valois (Valois Cafeteria) is a cafeteria-style restaurant at 1518 E. 53rd St. in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, opened in 1921 by French-Canadian immigrant William Valois, and long patronized by Barack Obama, per the U-High Midway (University of Chicago Laboratory Schools student newspaper), May 19, 2021 (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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