A previously unposted photo from CBA maps starting People – While
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A People’s History of Chicago (Kevin Koval, 2017)
“The Assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton” – Fred of Maywood, 21 years old, executed by the state…
Pres Chicago – 7 Most Endangered 2018
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser, 1900)
Carrie’s new beau – Drouett had taken three rooms, furnished, in Ogden Place, facing Union Park, on the West Side.
Our hero Selina explores the city while her son [So Big] is at work, visiting the “Black Belt” and its growing Great Migration population.
Southern Exposure (Lee Bey, 2019)
One of the 60+ buildings profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times architecture writer’s survey of South Side buildings
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Sam Greenlee, 1919)
Dan Freeman talks to his would be recruits – Yeah, I know what you were doing on the West Side in July when they had the riots over there.
After his place is demolished Harold Crick stays with his coworker/friend Dave.
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
CTA token taker Lucy’s parents got married in this church. Tokens!
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