From under his feathered scarlet bicorn, Jean-Jacques Dessalines looks northward with defiance from Lior’s Cafe. The general, who kicked the French out of what they called Saint-Domingue in 1804, was joined on the restaurant’s exterior wall by other historic Haitians—including Chicagoan Number One, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable—when muralist Rahmaan Statik painted it for Lior’s […] The post Lior’s Cafe is a safe space for Haitian food on the south side appeared first on Chicago Reader.