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Fire on the prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the politics of race (Holt, 1992, ISBN 0-8050-2698-3) Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. Black public history in Chicago: Civil rights activism from World War II into the Cold War (U of Illinois Press, 2018). Rocksborough-Smith, Ian. "Margaret T.G. Burroughs and Black Public History in Cold War Chicago".
The Chicago Thanksgiving Parade, "Chicago's Grand Holiday Tradition", is an annual parade produced and presented by the Chicago Festival Association (CFA). It began in 1934 and is held in downtown Chicago on State Street , every Thanksgiving morning from 8:00 am until 11:00 am CST.
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...
Residentially segregated neighborhoods, in combination with school zone gerrymandering, leads to racial/ethnic segregation in schools. Studies have found that schools tend to be equally or more segregated than their surrounding neighborhoods, further exacerbating patterns of residential segregation and racial inequality. [40]
After WGN lost the rights to the Chicago parade to WCHU and WAOE in 2021, [2] it scheduled the specials in the same time slot as it had in 2020. In 2022, Bozo, Gar & Ray aired the following Sunday after Thanksgiving with Bozo's Circus: The 1960s and 1970s specials airing on Thanksgiving day.
Chicago highways are expected to be among the busiest in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, according to AAA. In its pre-holiday travel report, the travel service organization said to expect ...
Thanksgiving is on its latest possible date in 2024, according to NBC Chicago. The date of the feast can differ based on leap years, and we are having one in 2024.
Gentrification, the process of altering the demographic and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood usually by decreasing the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage higher-income residents, [1] has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago who believe the influx of new residents destabilizes their communities, and the ...