This site celebrates those who lived in and fought for the Ida B. Wells public housing community. Opened in 1941, the public housing on this site was the first to house Black families and was named for Ida B. Wells because of community insistence. . . . — — Map (db m312355) HM
Ida Bell Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Orphaned at 16, she became a teacher to support her five younger siblings. She later moved to Memphis where she became a pioneering data Journalist, newspaper . . . — — Map (db m235179) HM
"Sculpture is not a self-declaration but a voice of and for my people over all, a rich fabric; under all, the dynamism of the African American people."
- Richard Hunt
Born on the South Side of Chicago, Richard Hunt (1935-2023) was one . . . — — Map (db m312358) HM
Built 1923
Remodeled 1943
Remodeled 1992 by Elder Zedie Hill
"For they perceived that this work was of God."
Nehemiah 6:16
Pastors
Bishop Wm. Roberts 1916-1954
Elder E.J. Duncan 1954-1955
Bishop I.L. Roberts 1955-1989
Elder . . . — — Map (db m312350) HM
This church building was the location, in early September 1955, of the open-casket visitation and funeral for Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago who was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His brutal, . . . — — Map (db m312330) HM
To house employees of his meat-packing facility, Philip D. Armour Sr. constructed a series of apartments that filled the area bounded by 33rd Street, Armour Street (now Federal), 34th Street, and Dearborn Street.
The building included . . . — — Map (db m299627) HM
These nine structures are what remains of "The Metropolis," one of the nation's most significant landmarks of African-American urban history. Developed during the first decades of the 20th century, this "city-within-a-city was home to numerous . . . — — Map (db m270515) HM
Will the Negro, in the language of Andre Malraux, find a meaning in his humiliation, make his slums and his sweat-shops his modern cathedrals out of which will be born a new consciousness that can guide him toward freedom? . . . — — Map (db m270703) HM
Depicted here are some of the geographic, cultural and historical features of this area - the "Black Metropolis" of Chicago. In the period after the First World War, an African American community of vitality and influence developed along these . . . — — Map (db m270715) HM
One of the few surviving collections of rowhouses on the South Side, dating from the late-19th and early-20th centuries and including early works by famed architects Louis H. Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. — — Map (db m270289) HM
Named in honor of the late Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Camp Douglas, established in 1861, was the earliest and largest Union military camp in the Chicago area. The camp stretched from 31st Street to 33rd Place and from Cottage Grove Avenue . . . — — Map (db m125027) HM
Chicago Bee Building
Z. Erol Smith, architect
1929-31
This Art Deco-style building was constructed as
the headquarters for the Chicago Bee newspaper,
which was founded by noted African American
entrepreneur Anthony Overton. It also . . . — — Map (db m188754) HM
Chicago Defender Building
Built 1899; remodeled 1915
This former Jewish synagogue was home to the
Chicago Defender from 1920 until 1960. Founded
by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, the newspaper
became nationally known for its . . . — — Map (db m188261) HM
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
This defining structure of 20th-century architecture is one of the masterpieces of this world reknowned architect. Designed to house the Illinois Institute of Technology's departments of architecture, planning, and design, the building's dramatic . . . — — Map (db m270262) HM
Enlistment and training center for U.S. Union Armed Forces. Site of enlistment of Private Charles H. Griffin, January 5, 1864 Co. B, 29th Regt U.S. Cold Infantry USCT. Prisoner of War camp where 6,000 Confederate soldiers of the Civil War died. — — Map (db m125614) HM WM
A riot is the language of the unheard. Dr. Martin Luther King
Sunday, July 27, 1919, a group of boys rafting on Lake Michigan drifted over an invisible racial barrier. Rocks were thrown from the breakwater and Eugene Williams was . . . — — Map (db m166545) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299691) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299692) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299693) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299694) HM
The District's five groups of masonry row houses, built between 1886 and 1892, are designed in architectural styles ranging from Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Classical Revival to the unusual Flemish Revival style. The house at 3800 S. . . . — — Map (db m299699) HM
[Plaque on the front:]
In the name of the people of Illinois, I command peace
[Plaque on the rear:]
Chicago police attacked at the Haymarket
May 4, 1886
Eight officers killed
Mathias J. Degan John J. Barrett George F. Miller . . . — — Map (db m270274) HM
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
1862-1931
Social reformer
Ida B. Wells-Barnett spent her life crusading against lynching
in America. An advocate for civil rights, womans suffrage and
economic justice, her anti-lynching campaign stirred the . . . — — Map (db m181804) HM
[Beneath Louis Armstrong:] Jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer
[Beneath Lil Hardin-Armstrong:] Jazz pianist, bandleader, composer — — Map (db m308569) HM
This bronze monument depicts a man wearing a suit made of shoe soles rising form a mound of soles. The soles, worn and full of holes, symbolize the often difficult journey from the South to the North. It commemorates all the African-American men and . . . — — Map (db m308339) HM
The home of the Italian beef, deep-dish pizza, and the Vienna Beef hot dog (hold the ketchup!) is also the city that gave us the skyscraper, open-heart surgery, and reverse-flowing river technology. There's no place else like Chicago, and we're . . . — — Map (db m299629) HM
The home of the Italian beef, deep-dish pizza, and the Vienna Beef hot dog (hold the ketchup!) is also the city that gave us the skyscraper, open-heart surgery, and reverse-flowing river technology. There's no place else like Chicago, and we're . . . — — Map (db m299630) HM
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