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Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970). Weems Jr, Robert E. The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire (U of Illinois Press, 2020). West, E. James. A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago ( U of Illinois Press, 2022).
In 1977, the City of Chicago passed an ordinance requiring that people wishing to demonstrate at public parks have $250,000 in insurance in order to obtain a permit. [17] As Collin and NSPA could not afford the insurance, they began to apply for permits to march in Chicago suburbs, including Skokie , a suburb with a largely Jewish population ...
Washington Park (formerly Western Division of South Park, also Park No. 21) is a 372-acre (1.5 km 2) [2] park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, (originally known as "Grand Boulevard") located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr. in the Washington Park community area on the South Side of Chicago.
This development of art in Chicago came from similar events similar to what happened in Harlem, “the inflow of Black southerners into Chicago; the creation of the WPA’s Federal Art Project (FAP) administered by the Illinois Art Project (IAP); the founding of the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC); and the artistic production and ...
Horse racing in the Chicago region had been a popular sport since the early days of the city in the 1830s, and at one time Chicago had more horse racing tracks (six) than any other major metropolitan area. [citation needed] Arlington International was the site of the first thoroughbred race with a million-dollar purse in 1981.
Democratic incumbents in at least two Chicago-area congressional races are locked in energetic challenges in the strongly Democratic territory. U.S. Rep. Danny Davis faces one of the toughest ...
His campaign eventually resulted in the 1894 closure of Washington Park Race Track, [2] although the track reopened in 1898. In 1905, a standing room only crowd at the track watched the finale of the first annual Chicago Marathon foot race. [9] The track closed later in 1905, when the state of Illinois banned gambling and stopped all horse ...
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