Sixty years ago, Chicago Public Schools responded to overcrowded classrooms in Black neigbhborhoods with mobile classrooms, leading to walkouts.
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Chicago police officer Renault Robinson was assigned to a beat in an alley behind police headquarters in the 1970s, part of a pattern of discrimination against the head of the Afro-American Patrolmen's league.
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Italo Balbo led a squadron of 24 aircraft into Chicago 90 years ago. The city cheered, awarding honors that included the renaming of a city street.
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Mary Belle Spencer was the public guardian of Cook County around 1920, but it was her laissez-faire child-rearing methods that garnered publicity.
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Ron Grossman: Why we should return to reciting the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July
This year, hearing the Declaration of Independence recited could provide emotional insurance for the rocky road ahead.
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The NASCAR drivers who will roar around downtown Chicago were preceded by stock car racers circling a Soldier Field track 67 years ago.
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Midway Airport was a virtual ghost town before being revived by a startup carrier, Midway Airlines, in the late 1970s.
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Margaret Anderson published daring literary works including James Joyce's "Ulysses" in The Little Review and in 2006 was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame.
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Latino activist Rudy Lozano was murdered in his home 40 years ago. A gang member was convicted and sent to prison, but many still question the motive behind the killing.
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A play lot in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood is a lasting memorial to a neighborhood undertaker's son who was killed in Vietnam.
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