Latino-owned brewery coming to Back of the Yards

From left to right: Rocio Santoyo, Victor Santoyo and Rene Lemus of Somos Monos Cervecería at the Santoyo home in Back of the Yards. Victor Santoyo has been homebrewing under the Somos Monos name for about a decade, but through funding from Invest South/West, the group will get the chance to turn their homebrewing project into a commercial brewery for the neighborhood. Lemus joined the project a few years ago as a business partner. (Kevin Tanaka/For Sun-Times)

The goal of the Invest South/West program is to spur more development in neglected parts of Chicago, and since launching in 2019, it has helped launch a variety of projects, from housing next to transit to food business incubators.

But until now, none of them has come with lagers made on-site.