In 1974, brothers Mafat and Tulsi opened the first Indian grocery store in West Ridge – leading the way to establish Chicago's 'Little India' and what is now the most popular Indian grocery store chain in the country.

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Beyond the 13 acres of green space, visiting Indian Boundary Park is a historic experience: it gets its name from the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis that drew a boundary line around Chicagoland and pushed Pottawattomie peoples out of their native territories.

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Ghareeb Nawaz remains one of Chicago’s great equalizers: a no-frills Devon Avenue institution where enormous plates of biryani, curry, and paratha have been satisfying hungry diners for decades.

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