When We Let Dreams Die

I woke up Tuesday feeling like crap, and it had nothing to do with the cold and flu ping-ponging around our office. That morning, I found out that Chicago chef Cleetus Friedman was shuttering City Provisions, his deli, restaurant, food shop and catering business. And that news was a sharp kick in the stomach to me.

OK, City Provisions wasn't the center of Chicago's food scene; you weren't going to find celebrities there or chefs...