"DuSable started the fur trade here in Chicago, so it's kind of bizarre to try to truly ... The full City Council still must take a vote on it. Brown said if the store went synthetic, the coats would ...

Gerard Brown, owner of Island Furs, repairs a fur coat in his store on March 4, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune) Fur coats on display at Island Furs on March 4, 2025. (Audrey Richardson ...

Meslar/Chicago Tribune ... Gerard Brown, owner of Beverly’s 31-year-old Island Furs, said before the vote a ban would put his store out of business. It is one of three black-owned furriers ...

Now, the store at 2201 W. 95th St. into which Tebyanian has poured her heart and soul for decades could be forced to overcome an even bigger challenge: A Chicago ban on the sale of new fur ...

103rd St. Brown has been selling and servicing fur coats at the store since he came out of design school 40 years ago. Budget Chair Jason Ervin (28th) noted Chicago was “founded by a Black man w ...

The opponents who won out argued the regulation would put family-owned fur stores out of business in an act of government ...

Gerard Brown, owner of Island Furs in Chicago, shared a simple prediction Tuesday on what the ban would mean for his 31-year-old Beverly store: “We wouldn’t exist.” The fur business is the ...

"DuSable started the fur trade here in Chicago, so it's kind of bizarre to ... Brown said if the store went synthetic, the ...

CHICAGO — Aldermen rejected an effort Wednesday ... But the opponents who won out argued the regulation would put family-owned fur stores out of business in an act of government overreach.

Gerard Brown, owner of Island Furs in Chicago, shared a simple prediction Tuesday on what the ban would mean for his 31-year-old Beverly store: “We wouldn’t exist.” The fur business is the ...

CHICAGO — Aldermen rejected an effort Wednesday ... But the opponents who won out argued the regulation would put family-owned fur stores out of business in an act of government overreach.