Their audition performance will air Tuesday on the hit NBC competition series.
Ms. Ferguson made history when she became the first Black woman to work as an investigative reporter in Chicago TV news. Her reporting led to the exoneration of a man whose forced confession led to a wrongful convicted in a murder case.
The Niles restaurant, which opens this summer, is yet another stamp in the portfolio of James Beard Award-winning restaurateur Jimmy Bannos Jr., but this one is the most personal.