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Chicago Entrepreneur Liz Abunaw Opens ‘Forty Acres Fresh Market’ to Reclaim Meaning of ‘Forty Acres and a Mule’

Summary by Shine My Crown
A historic promise left unfulfilled since the end of the Civil War is being reimagined on Chicago’s West Side, where entrepreneur Liz Abunaw has opened a community grocery store rooted in Black economic empowerment. Her new business, Forty Acres Fresh Market, located in the Austin neighborhood, draws its name from the federal government’s abandoned pledge to provide formerly enslaved people with “forty acres and a mule” — a symbol of land owners…
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Shine My Crown broke the news in on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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