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Anyone who planned on heading to Soul Queen in honor of founder Helen Maybell Anglin needn't bother. The Chicago Defender reports that the venerable South Side institution closes with Ms. Anglin: the licenses she held for the restaurant were non-transferable. Daughter D-Ella Pyrzynski said, "Soul Queen was her legacy, and that is how she wants to be remembered. I guess you can say it will be buried with her." The family plans on selling the building where Soul Queen is housed. [Chicago Defender, via]
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I'm going to guess that the restaurant was a "legal, non-conforming use" for that location.
Which means that it was legal to open it when it opened & continued to be a legal use as long as the person on the license was alive. The property's zoning has changed in the intervening years & a restaurant isn't allowed there anymore.
Isn't this the same restaurant that had so many health violations that they did a news segment about it?