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Steve Cunneen ran Cunneen’s bar at 1424 W. Devon Ave. for nearly half a century. | Carly Behm / The Phoenix

When she was 20 and he was 42, Belinda Plemons was working as a bartender for Steve Cunneen, a no-nonsense boss she respected.

She moved out of state, married and started a family. Then, in 2006, when she was 49 and going through a divorce, she returned home to Chicago. One night, she decided to drop in at Cunneen’s, the Devon Avenue tavern that still felt like home.

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