# Ja’ Grill Closing After Nearly 2 Decades In Hyde Park, North Side

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/28/ja-grill-closing-after-nearly-2-decades-in-hyde-park-north-side/

HYDE PARK — A longstanding Jamaican restaurant and bar is set to close next week after nearly two decades in Chicago — more than a decade of which has been spent on the South Side. Ja’ Grill, 1510 E. Harper Court, will close Monday, management posted to the restaurant’s Instagram page Wednesday. Ja’ Grill — whose menu features Jamaican classics like curry goat, jerk chicken, ital stew, oxtail and Escovitch red snapper — spent seven years on the North Side before moving to Hyde Park in 2014 as one of the first tenants in the Harper Court redevelopment. “From our beginnings in Li

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Created: 2026-10-28T20:36:41.176274+00:00

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