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Michael Reese Michael’s Hip Hop Shop “I’m sure that business will be back and more when they finish with the road project – but will that business pay the rent and pay employees? I can’t say. I just keep doing what I’ve always done – working like crazy to keep up it moving forward. I’m in the fashion business, and if you can’t keep up, you’re done. I expect to have more competition in the neighborhood any time now, so I’ve been thinking about selling name brands. I’m working on a mailing list for Christmas and I’m getting set to give away a TV.” In his 11 years as a shop owner on Lake Street, Michael Reese says he’s seen it all, and anyone who frequents the Chicago-Lake area has no doubt seen him on the sidewalk, hustling customers into his narrow store jammed with racks of urban clothing priced to move on a never-ending BIG SALE. Reese always has a handful of business cards at the ready and a story to tell. If you ask him how he’s doing, you’d better be prepared to hear just about anything. Construction on Lake Street has hit his business hard, he says. The closure of the bus stop outside his storefront has taken away two of every three customers. This latest adversity, he says, is just another chapter in the book of doing business on Lake Street.
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