Mourners remember George E. Johnson as builder of Black business

Many of Chicago’s Black-owned businesses may not be open today if not for George E. Johnson Sr. That was the message echoed Thursday by friends, colleagues and admirers who gathered at Leak and Sons Funeral Home in Greater Grand Crossing to pay respect to the Johnson Products Company founder, who died July 6 at age 99. “Many of the Black businesses didn’t know about LLCs, they didn’t know about corporation, they didn’t know about the back end of the business. And he took many of them under his…