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In the West Loop, John Shields and Karen Urie Shields’s casual subterranean answer to the Smyth holds its own.
Loyalists were “persons inimical to the liberties of America,” as was said by patriots during the Revolutionary War. On their worst days they were often subject to arson and tarring and feathering, but at war’s end many of them—including former slaves—were granted asylum in Canada.…