{"id":548,"date":"2014-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:59:41","slug":"chicagos-19-paul-doing-it-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/chicagos-19-paul-doing-it-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;19 Paul&#8221; Doing It BIG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>In life you have friends who have dreams, and then you have friends who are DREAMERS!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That&#8217;s exactly how I would describe my friend since the age of 13, my sister and fellow entrepreneur Kurrin Beamon, founder of the Chicago restaurant &#8220;19 Paul&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong><span>Take alook at her being featured on FOX news in Chicago recently:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As long as I can remember, maybe over 10 years back, even more, Kurrin always wanted to have her own restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now let me just say, <em><u><strong>this chick can cook<\/strong><\/u><\/em> as it is..so it was always something I could see her doing, and believing it would work!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><u>Like most entrepreneurs<\/u>, seeking to live out their dream, Kurrin faced her share of setbacks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>banks not giving her the loans for startup<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>partners not following through<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>not having enough money to get things going on her own<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>having chef&#8217;s commit, then gone by morning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>etc<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><strong>However, NO MORE!!<\/strong><br \/><span>&#8220;19 Paul&#8221;<\/span> is the true manifestation and realization of a dream that seemed so deferred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s finally here, open to the public, and with a spin to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kurrin Beamon has been and still is a Chicago Police Officer for 15 years.\u00a0 Thus, her restaturant has a CPD theme and feel to it, that goes along with it&#8217;s name &#8220;19 Paul&#8221;&#8230;which is police code for miscellanous activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Now here&#8217;s what&#8217;s even greater..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kurrin still works the night shift in the Englewood community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She gets off work early in the A.M only to take a couple hours nap before she&#8217;s back up again slow cooking and seasoning the flavor meats she offers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She is the chef, the owner, the manager, the employee, the everything to her business right now..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And you know what..MORE POWER to her!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As entrepreneurs, we all have to be willing to go all out for what we envision, even if it means sewing the seeds of the one-woman-show until we can attain a staff and other help!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>(Kurrin, I am so so proud of you for never giving up.\u00a0 For staying true to your vision and for doing whatever it takes to make it happen!!)<br \/>So here&#8217;s the deal, if you are in the Chicago area, over by 111th and Vincennes&#8230;head on over to &#8220;19 Paul&#8221;, ask for Kurrin, and tell her Tracey sent ya!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let&#8217;s keep supporting entrepreneurship..and of course good food!!<br \/><strong>Til next time,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>~Tracey <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In life you have friends who have dreams, and then you have friends who are DREAMERS! That&#8217;s exactly how I would describe my friend since the age of 13, my sister and fellow entrepreneur Kurrin Beamon, founder of the Chicago restaurant &#8220;19 Paul&#8221;. Take alook at her being featured on FOX news in Chicago recently: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/traceywalker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}