Mark's Chop Suey closing Friday after 38 years in Boystown

Chicago, IL - After 38 years of serving Chinese food right by the city's most popular bars, the matriarch running Mark's Chop Suey is closing its doors Friday.

The restaurant first opened in 1976 at 2901 N. Broadway, right next to a popular, now-shuttered bar called Gaffer's, said Dan Mark, 44, whose mother, Amy runs, the restaurant.

Then in 1989, the Mark family opened the current location at 3343 N. Halsted St., right next to Sidetrack, one of the country's best-known gay bars. One of Mark's gay diners tipped Amy off to the building for sale in the up-and-coming area.

Now, Amy Mark, 64, is ready to slow down. 

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