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A look back at the Busy Bee Busy Bee sour cream spinach soup Local landmark now is a warm memory
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The Busy Bee was the sweetest restaurant in Chicago.
m Until 1998, the Polish-American diner under the L tracks at 1546 N.
Damen was a fixture of the North-west Side. Harold Washington
campaigned there; one-armed piano player Eddie Balchowsky told two-
fisted stories about his buddy Nelson Algren there. The Busy Bee was
a diamond ring that united Damen, Milwaukee and North avenues.
How do you explain love? The Busy Bee was like that, an
inexplicable urge you trusted for i...
