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Tyrone Muhammad, 53, a former enforcer for the Gangster Disciples who did 20 years in state prison, now runs a violence prevention program in Chicago’s inner city.
Chicago XI is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Chicago.It was released on September 12, 1977, through Columbia Records.It was both the last to feature guitarist and vocalist Terry Kath prior to his death in a gun accident just over four months later, and the last to be produced by longtime associate of the band James William Guercio.
Joseph Kromelis (1947 – December 11, 2022) known as 'Walking Man', 'Walking Dude' [1] [2] or Walking Yanni [3] was a Chicago-area homeless man and street vendor known for his physical appearance and for wandering about the city.
Aurora, Chicago's largest suburb, is in the shadow of where the Ripper Crew's notorious crimes happened in the early 1980s. People had not forgotten about the murders when Kokoraleis was released ...
A 1980 augmented edition was titled Chicago Slums to World Politics. In the 1970s Lightfoot wrote newspaper columns for the Chicago Courier. In 1973 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Rostock in East Germany for his book Racism and Human Survival: Lessons of Nazi Germany for Today's World. He was also honored by the W.E.B ...
Born John Francis Brandmeier [1] [2] to a German father and a Lebanese mother, Brandmeier started his radio career in 1973 at WFON in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.When he was 18 he joined WOSH in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, later working as a DJ at WYNE (now WHBY) in Appleton, Wisconsin, then at KLIV in San Jose, California, then as the morning jock at WYBR-FM (now WXRX) in Rockford, Illinois, and then in ...
The last-minute, temporary solution around 1 a.m. Wednesday, coordinated by volunteers and suburban officials, came as Chicago and other cities have struggled to house the growing population of ...
Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970). Weems Jr, Robert E. The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire (U of Illinois Press, 2020). West, E. James. A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago ( U of Illinois Press, 2022).