“Thank you for sixty years of support,” reads a white placard heading each table at Soul Queen, an all-you-can-eat soul food restaurant located at the intersection of 90th Street and Stony Island Ave. in the neighborhood of Calumet Heights. Soul Queen moved to its current location in 1975 and it seems that little has changed since then. The paint on Soul Queen’s hand-painted sign is chipped and faded. It reads “Soul food for all souls” and depicts the Soul Queen’s majestic profile, overlain with a calligraphic “S. Q.” Many of the light bulbs trimming parts of the sign are burned out or missing. Read the rest of this entry »