Vivek Ramaswamy and his family would trek to Chicago at least two times a year when he was a boy, to stock up on ingredients for Indian food that weren’t available in the Cincinnati suburb where they lived.
When he wasn’t helping with grocery shopping on Devon Avenue, or “Devin” as he pronounced it, Ramaswamy came into the city and surrounding suburbs to visit relatives and compete in tennis tournaments. None of these trips, he told me, included a stop on the South Side, except the time he was in Hyde Park to check out the University of Chicago campus.
