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Block Club Chicago: How The Rosenwald Apartments Became ‘A City Within A City’ (Chicago 7 2007)
"Nothing is the same at the apartment building where Mary Buford raised her family. The original entrance to her old building inside of the...
Friends of the Parks to the Chicago Bears: Play Ball With Stakeholders on New Stadium Plans
"For the record, Friends of the Parks would like Chicagoans to know that the parks advocacy organization did not force George Lucas out of...
Chicago YIMBY: Lost Legends #10: The Masonic Temple Building In The Loop
"In this edition of the “Lost Legends” series, we delve into the history of The Loop‘s Masonic Temple Building, which stood tall from 1892...
Chicago Magazine: “Accelerate Hard as You Can” For a Blues Brothers stunt driver, the thrill of the chase was only part of the fun
"It was the late spring of 1979, and I’d recently left my job selling high-line cars at Loeber Motors on Clark Street, a couple...
WBEZ Chicago: Route 66 was ‘a microcosm of America.’ Now, preservationists want to collect its stories.
"'Get your kicks on Route 66,' Nat King Cole famously sang in 1946 about one of the United States’ first highways. The iconic road,...
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Stroll Through 7 Sites of Jazz History in Chicago
"From 1923 to World War II, as the Great Migration brought Black people from the Deep South to the South Side, Chicago became the...
The Newberry: Harold Lucas: A Bronzeville Historian’s Lasting Kinship
"Last summer, I interned with the Modern Manuscripts and Archives Team helping to organize the documents of the late Harold Lucas (1942-2022). This collection...
Block Club Chicago: Austin, Roseland And Humboldt Park First To Participate In Renewed Historical Marker Project
"Three communities of color will be the first involved in a renewed citywide art project highlighting important people, events and locations in the city’s...
Daily Southtown: South Side shop still sets stones from Indiana that fostered Chicago’s ‘White City’ style
"The rocks embedded in the exterior of Chicago’s Tribune Tower famously were collected by newspaper correspondents on assignment in far flung locales."The nearly 150...
WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? Chicago Buildings Housing Migrants
"In the past 16 months, at least 29,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas on buses, airplanes and Metra trains."Providing shelter has been...