Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, Illinois Historical Markers

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Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, Illinois Historical Markers

This set of sidewalk memorials commemorates the locations where people were killed in the 1919 Chicago Race Riots. Between July 27 and August 3, 1919, 38 people died in the racially charged violence that rocked the city. These memorials are inspired by Europe's Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) honoring Holocaust victims.

By Sean P. Flynn, May 13, 2026

Two Riot of 1919 markers in front of the Chicago Bee Branch of the Chicago Public Library

1 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Casmere Lazzeroni — 1854-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am searching — — Map (db m299660) HM

2 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 — Commemoration Project —

The 1919 Chicago Race Riot, part of what is known as the Red Summer, erupted on July 27th after a Black youth, Eugene Williams, was killed by a white man for swimming in a part of Lake Michigan unofficially reserved for white people. That killing . . . — — Map (db m270462) HM

3 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Edward Lee — 1871-1919 —

I am a friend and an artist I am alone with my thoughts — — Map (db m288769) HM

4 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Eugene Temple — 1887-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am a friend and an artist — — Map (db m299655) HM

5 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Hymes Taylor — 1881-1919 —

I am the color of my skin I am my ancestors — — Map (db m288717) HM

6 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — John Simpson — 1889-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am my ancestors — — Map (db m299637) HM

7 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — John Walter Humphrey — 1898-1919 —

I am full of wonder I am who I surround myself with — — Map (db m288773) HM

8 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — Joseph Sanford — 1885-1919 —

Swimming on a hot summer day On Lake Michigan I am Eugene — — Map (db m288701) HM

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9 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Douglas — William J. Otterson — 1885-1919 —

I am searching I am Eugene Williams — — Map (db m288774) HM

10 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, Little Italy — Joseph Lovings — 1878-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am a son I am a brother — — Map (db m295858) HM

11 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, South Loop — Harold Brignadello — 1884-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am who I surround myself with — — Map (db m289938) HM

12 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Paul Hardwick — 1868-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am Eugene — — Map (db m288669) HM

13 ► Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Robert Williams — 1878-1919 — Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project —

I am a golden child — — Map (db m288560) HM

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