
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.