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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

Food business program that’s helped South Side staples is looking to train more restaurateurs

Aisha Murff, owner of Haire’s Gulf Shrimp, makes fried shrimp in the restaurant at 7448 S. Vincennes Ave. in Chatham on the South Side, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

When Aisha Murff suddenly found herself at the helm of a well-known South Side shrimp shack, she hadn’t run a restaurant but knew she’d better learn.

Murff, the Los Angeles-born daughter of an actress, became the owner of Haire’s Gulf Shrimp when her husband, Finnie Haire, died in 2021, leaving her a Greater Grand Crossing institution that was decades old and built on a recipe carried over in the Great Migration.

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