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Blacks in Chicago are frustrated that long-standing needs are not being met while the city’s newly arrived are cared for […] The post Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests.
White Chicagoans at the time accused them of receiving disproportionate resources from the city, and in 1919 tensions boiled over. In a surge of racist attacks in cities across the U.S. that came to be known as “Red Summer,” white residents burned large swaths of Chicago’s Black neighborhoods and killed 38 Black people, including by lynching.
More than 19,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago since the first two buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrived at Union Station on Aug. 31, 2022. What began as a political stunt by Abbott to ...
CHICAGO — Behind a thick black curtain at O’Hare International Airport where a security guard with a German shepherd stood watch, dozens of migrants sprawled on the hard tile floor, awaiting ...
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration is a non-fiction book by James R. Grossman, published by University of Chicago Press in 1991. It received several positive reviews in the academic press, and was noted as a significant contribution to scholarly work on Black community experience of migration to Chicago from southern states.
The city allocated $150 million to the migrant crisis in its 2024 fiscal year budget. Johnson and others, including the Democratic governors of eight states, have urged the federal government to ...
Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (UNC Press Books, 2019). Best, Wallace. "Black Belt," in Encyclopedia of Chicago, 2007; p. 140. Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952. (Princeton University Press, 2007: ISBN 978-0-6911-3375-1, 2013). Info page.