Chicago

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• 8/4/19
  

  Remembering The Red Summer 100 Years Later

  by David Krugler

  How should the challenging but essential task of remembering and commemorating this troubling history be confronted? 

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/27/2019
  

  Ensuring the Chicago Race Riot Is Not Forgotten, With Inspiration from Germany's Holocaust Memorials

  The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19), a group led by historian Peter Cole, hopes to make sure the memory lasts beyond the weekend of July 27.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times
  7/30/2019
  

  Obama Presidential Center would have ‘adverse impact’ on historic Jackson Park, federal review concludes

  The finding by the Federal Highway Administration puts pressure on the Obama Foundation to find a way to “resolve adverse effects” and turns up the heat on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to order the foundation to make those changes.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/11/2019
  

  Judge: Obama center construction can move forward in Chicago

  While the library has also faced criticism from residents over the traffic it will bring and people it will displace, Tuesday’s decision was largely celebrated by neighborhood organizations and business groups.

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• 9/2/18
  

  Why Does Chicago Seem Broken?

  by Roger Biles

  It may be because of what happened 30 years ago.

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• 2/11/18
  

  Chicago’s Got a Statue Problem too

  by Wallace Hettle

  It’s this giant monument to Stephen A. Douglas.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-6-17
  

  What Happened to the American Boomtown?

  The places with the most opportunity used to attract the most new residents, in a cycle of fast-growing cities and rising prosperity. But no more.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-27-16
  

  Obama Is Said to Have Picked Presidential Library Site in Chicago

  President Obama has selected Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side to build his presidential library near the University of Chicago.

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• 11-24-15
  

  Chicago’s Police Problem

  by Simon Balto

  They’re unaccountable, out of control, and a threat to black people.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  7-28-15 (accessed)
  

  The Obama library lands on Chicago

  by Rick Perlstein

  Like so many things Obamian, when it comes to transparency, fantasies of reform turn to ashes in our mouths.

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  3-18-15
  

  Why Jesus “Chuy” Garcia Should Look to Anton Cermak’s Chicago Mayoral Campaign for Inspiration

  by Peter Cole

  The parallels between Cermak and Garcia—and Chicago’s political moment in the 1930s and now—are striking.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  3-15-15
  

  Chicago land feud over Obama presidential library plan reflects familiar history

  This is not the first time a presidential library has been at the center of a land dispute.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2-19-15
  

  After stumbles, Chicago on course to host Obama library

  The Barack Obama Foundation, the nonprofit charged with siting the library, is set to announce the location by the end of next month.

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• SOURCE: Chicagoist
  2-3-15
  

  Watch A Piece Of Chicago's Architectural History Come Tumbling Down

  Whether you're on the side of "progress" or "preserving history," this video is powerful, regardless, and is a stark reminder that change is constant.

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• SOURCE: Politcal Wire
  1-21-15
  

  Emanuel Aims to Boost Bid for Obama Library

  “His magnanimous gesture boosts U of C’s chances of beating out Columbia Universityin New York to become the library’s home. A win would add new luster to the university’s already considerable prestige.”

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  12-2-13
  

  'Chicago Time Machine' looks at layers of history

  Geoffrey Baer's 'Chicago Time Machine' takes deep-dish look at the past.

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• SOURCE: Chicagoist
  10-24-13
  

  Chicago History Museum Becomes First Museum In America To Crowdsource An Exhibit

  Email historybowl@chicagohistory.org with your suggestions.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9-5-13
  

  On Privatization's Cutting Edge

  by Rick Perlstein

  (Illegally) selling the police powers of a city: coming near you!

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• How Harold Washington, Against the Odds, Became the First Black Mayor of Chicago

  by Bill Zimmerman and Marilyn Katz

  And lessons for aspiring underdog political candidates today.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  8-8-13
  

  Fronczak missing Chicago boy case: FBI reopens probe

  The FBI has reopened an investigation into the disappearance of a newborn boy stolen from a Chicago hospital in 1964.It comes after DNA tests showed that the child who was returned to the missing boy's parents is not their son.Paul Fronczak, 49, was raised by Chester and Dora Fronczak after detectives found him abandoned in New Jersey in 1965....