Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in ChicagoFrom Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonalds operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long overlooked history of African American work and