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Born in Chicago; raised in Chicago suburb, Des Plaines [118] Drew Fortier: Jul 14, 1987: Musician, filmmaker, actor, and author Born and raised in Chicago [119] Bob Fosse: Jun 23, 1927: Sep 23, 1987: Director, choreographer, and dancer Born in Chicago Redd Foxx: Dec 9, 1922: Oct 11, 1991: Actor and comedian Grew up in the Bronzeville ...
Born in Chicago Jimmy Chamberlin: Jun 10, 1964: Drummer for The Smashing Pumpkins: Chance the Rapper (born Chancelor Bennett) Apr 16, 1993: Rapper Born in Chicago Gene Chandler: Jul 6, 1937: Singer Born in Chicago Chief Keef (born Keith Cozart) Aug 15, 1995: Rapper Born and lived in the Washington Park and Englewood neighborhoods on the South ...
The Regal Theater was a night club, theater, and music venue, popular among African Americans, located in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The theater was designed by Edward Eichenbaum, [2] and opened in February 1928.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood prepped for its biggest influx of residents since the post Civil-War Great Black Migration when it bid for the 2016 Olympics last year. Rio de Janeiro won the ...
Students learn to make scale model aircraft for the war effort in a class at the Ida B. Wells Homes community center (March 1942) Named for African American journalist and newspaper editor Ida B. Wells, [1] the housing project was constructed between 1939 and 1941 as a Public Works Administration project to house black families in the "ghetto", in accordance with federal regulations requiring ...
Ohio has produced a slew of famous people from each of its 88 counties.
Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center was an American hospital located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1881, Michael Reese Hospital was a major research and teaching hospital and one of the oldest and largest hospitals in Chicago, Illinois.