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Robbins is a village southwest of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,629 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is the second oldest African American incorporated town in the north following Brooklyn, Illinois , and was home to the country’s first black-owned airport, Robbins Airport .
Following is a list of mayors of Robbins, Illinois, founded December 14, 1917, the first municipality in the north that was entirely governed by African-Americans. [1] The first election was held on January 15, 1918 with Thomas J. Kellar elected as the mayor and six trustees empaneled (Richard Flowers, Leroy P. Thomas, R. H. Bryant, Jerry Taylor, Edward Brown, George Winburn).
[7] [8] Zoning ordinances did not allow African-Americans moving into or using residences that were occupied by majority whites due to the fact that their presence would decrease the value of home. [9] The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Village of Euclid, Ohio v.
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Central Stickney is an unincorporated community in Stickney Township, Cook County, Illinois, a half mile north of Midway International Airport.It consists of the areas around Central Avenue, between I-55 to the north and 51st Street, its southern boundary; east of Central, the northern boundary is roughly drawn between 47th and 48th Streets.
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Statue of Saint Christopher outside St. Christopher Church. Like many southwest suburbs of Chicago in the 1800s and early 1900s, the area now known as the Village of Midlothian consisted of a few area farmers being surrounded by large and small endeavors alike as the industrial age began its exponential expansion process in the Bremen Township in Cook County, Illinois community.