Dream Cafe & Grille

Dream Cafe & Grille

Music entrepreneur Howard Bailey's Southside restaurant

748 W. 61st St.

Dream Cafe and Grille opened in 2015 and closed just a year and a half later, but it was a welcome addition to the Englewood neighborhood. Managed by DJ Duane Powell, the space was known for its outreach and community engagement to neighborhood schools as well as its healthy, fresh menu and its cheese cakes. Bailey says that Dream Cafe was born out of necessity because the neighborhood has few to no options for people to sit down and eat something that isn't fried.

Micah Salkind

Chicago Defender. “Chicago’s Dream Cafe: The Reality of Good Food in Englewood,” June 1, 2015. https://chicagodefender.com/chicagos-dream-cafe-the-reality-of-good-food-in-englewood/.

DNAinfo Chicago. “Dream Cafe Closed For Now, But Owner Vows To Reopen.” Accessed August 14, 2020. https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160630/englewood/dream-cafe-closed-for-now-but-owner-vows-reopen.

Williams, Eric, and Howard Bailey. “Creating Black Social Spaces through Black Entrepreneurship: From Lit X to Square One to the Silver Room.” Panel presented at the Honey Pot Performance and The Chicago Black Social Culture Map present Black Migrations: House, Hip Hop & Acid Jazz in 90s Wicker Park, The Silver Room, June 1, 2019. https://youtu.be/XeWaW0lFMNg.

2015/2016

Duane Powell

Howard Bailey

2015/2016

Dream Cafe

Social Culture