Chicago's Ina Pinkney is the Toast of the Town

As sunny-side up as her eggs, Ina Pinkney, owner of Chicago’s famed breakfast haunt Ina’s, made it through childhood polio, 19 job firings and two write-in political campaigns, only to emerge as a savvy professional who is as fearless and motivated as she is manicured.

If someone said you seem as self-possessed and manicured as Barbra Streisand, would that make sense?

In the 1960s,...