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Samuel Dent escaped slavery in Alabama in 1862 and worked for a surgeon in an Illinois regiment. He moved up to Chicago, which he fled after the Great Chicago Fire.
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In August 1913, about 200 White citizens of Wilmette "paraded" in the streets to demand a stop to allowing Blacks from buying property in the town. Two buildings had recently
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Elmer Carlson is a somewhat unsung Chicago architect of the 1930s through the 1950s. I’m here tonight to sing him. These are some of his houses in Beverly, where he
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OTD in 1916, packets containing bits of the ashes of Joe Hill were passed out to 150 people at an Industrial Workers of the World meeting at the West Side
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Summer 1888: Chicago brewery owner Bernard Roesing, a German immigrant, tells his employee Edward Stege, also from Germany, he doesn’t want any dirty Irishmen working in his brewery. Roesing wants
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