The Government Is Offering Me $4 Million. I’m Turning It Down.
That money should help truly small businesses and hundreds of their employees survive economically in a crushing pandemic.
My favorite small business in Chicago is a Middle Eastern restaurant called Old Jerusalem. It has maybe 15 tables, and some of the best falafel and garlic sauce you can find in the city. It’s still run by the same family that started it 40 years ago. On a street increasingly studded with the storefronts of chain restaurants and exercise studios, Old Jerusalem has remained a neighborhood institution.
My other favorite small business is my own, . We are
