The Hardscrabbler

 Diverse Neighborhood Prairie Shores at 31st Street In the mid-1990s, Ross Miller, author of Here’s the Deal , thought he might be witnessin...

Social Problems In 1962, the authors of Black Metropolis were cautiously optimistic when they asked what postwar prosperity and the nation’...

  Growth Machine Dunbar Park: Poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar with Towers in Douglas Chicago was volatile in the first decades of the last century...

Ethnic Waves Monument to the Great Northern Migration, at 26th and Martin Luther King Drive For a hundred years Chicago’s population grew fa...

Acknowledgement “And there in that great iron city… we caught whispers of the meanings that life could have, and we were pushed and pounde...