A tour bike standing on the sidewalk in front of a eighth story red and tan brick a building with three arched windows at the center of the second floor.

5 pictures from CBA’s map for Native Son (Richard Wright, 1940)

You can use the map to take a virtual tour while you read or to see the sights on your own. Contact CBA for a custom guided bike ride that include these sites and gift certificates.

A tour bike standing in front of red brick and white terra cotta detailed corner apartment building.
After leaving the Daltons’, Bigger takes a streetcar west to see Bessie. Sutherland Apartments (Henry L. Newhouse, 1919 in Bronzeville/Kenwood, with a lot of real history, at the intersection of 47th & Drexel
A tour bike standing at the curb below four story common brick loft space with black metal balconies and fire escapes..
People pause on the sidewalk to watch the row of cars taking Bigger to jail.
 The Opera Lofts, former Lyric Opera workshop in Near South Side, The police caravan would be coming toward the viewer. 
A tour bike standing in front of a three story limestone faced three wide three story home with a stone front porch and three second story only bay windows.
Bigger is accused of committing another unconnected crime on this street.
Joseph A Thomlinson house (Solon Beman, 1904) on University Avenue in Hyde Park
A tour bike standing in front of a red brick one and half story food stand with limestone design details
While in hiding Bigger reads about a quelled riot of “concerned citizens”. A 1916 former bowling alley in Canaryville, northeast corner of 47th & Halsted.
A tour bike standing on the sidewalk in front of a eighth story red and tan brick a building with three arched windows at the center of the second floor.
Mary Dalton asks her father if her bought tickets for the Thursday concert. Inside the Symphony Center (Daniel Burnham, 1904) in the Loop.

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