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HISTORICAL FACTS: Bronzeville - The Untold Story

Husband of Missing CPS Teacher Linda Brown Compared to Chris Watts Online — Who Is He and Why?

Linda Brown, 53, missing since Saturday. Chicago teacher's car found Wednesday, but she remains missing. Husband pleads for help as search intensifies.

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Grubhub awards microgrants to 64 local nonprofits helping people access food

One of the groups that received a grant provides free cooking classes and nutritional coaching for communities on the South and West sides.

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Christmas lights up Chicago — we found houses decked for the holiday season in every part of the city

Sun-Times photographers fanned out across Chicago’s South, West and North Side neighborhoods to capture their favorite displays.

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Bronzeville Trail to receive $5 million in funding in 2024

The Bronzeville Trail Task Force met with the city two weeks ago discuss opening at least some parts of the trail.

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Gutted by fire, the fate of Bronzeville’s historic Swift Mansion remains in limbo

The fire is under investigation, but the 131-year-old home’s survival could rest with the results of a structural report now being prepared by city building inspectors.

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Man stabbed on CTA bus in Bronzeville

The passenger got into an argument with another man on the bus around midnight in the 4300 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.

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Woman rescued from 7th floor during fire in Bronzeville apartment building

The cause of the fire at 3515 S. Cottage Grove Ave. was thought to be “careless use of smoking materials,” according to the Chicago Fire Department.

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Chicago’s Black neighborhoods pay a steep economic price for the stigma of race

In Black neighborhoods that are growing economically — including in Greater Bronzeville — Black population is on the decline. It’s almost like the only way to shatter the economic glass ceiling is for a neighborhood to shed its Blackness, Alden Loury writes.

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Bud Billiken Parade puts South Side’s vibrant spirit on display: ‘It brings out the kid in everyone’

In its 94th year, the Saturday parade brought together thousands of community members to celebrate the end of the summer season ahead of the upcoming school year.

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Bronzeville church where Emmett Till’s casket lay open becomes a national monument, Lollapalooza takes over Grant Park, and a century-old church in Pilsen could gain landmark status.

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Now a national monument, Bronzeville church where Emmett Till’s casket lay open gets official sign

Roberts Temple Church, at 40th and State streets, will preserve the site where Till’s body was displayed in an open casket and launched the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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Fans flock to final weekend for Silver Room Block Party: ‘This is what makes Chicago as dope as it is.’

Festivalgoers showed up to bid farewell to the beloved street fest that has celebrated its love for house music from Wicker Park to Hyde Park.

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Bronzeville’s historic Wabash YMCA set for another restoration, courtesy of federal grant

The renovations will focus on a pool, a gym, various meeting rooms and reviving a decades-old mural in the historic building where Black History Month originated.

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Chicago cops falsely arrested mom, 14-year-old son in shooting at hot dog stand, lawsuit claims after murder charges dropped

“Everything I worked hard for has been tarnished,” Carlishia Hood said of her arrest at a news conference Tuesday.

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Jonathan Eig wrote ‘King: A Life’ about Martin Luther King Jr. — the man this time, instead of the myth

CHICAGO -- The air-conditioned tour bus with tinted windows stopped outside Bright Star Baptist Church in Bronzeville and out came several dozen congregants from the Anshe Emet Synagogue of Lakeview. They moved slowly up the sidewalk and concrete steps of the church. Before anyone reached the doors, welcomes erupted, like…

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Man fatally shot in Bronzeville drive-by

Michael Mccarter II, 30, was standing in the alley in the 800 block of East 45th Street when a vehicle drove by and someone inside fired shots.

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New, more accessible 43rd Street bridge opens in Bronzeville: ‘It’s a good thing’

The rebuilt 43rd Street pedestrian bridge that leads to Burnham Park features bike lanes and ramps to accommodate people who use bicycles and wheelchairs.

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New 43rd Street bridge over DuSable LSD brings more equity to south lakefront

The $36 million bridge is designed to improve lakefront access for Bronzeville and North Kenwood.

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Bronzeville high-rise near CTA Green Line to open by summer

Half the units in 43G One, a 10-story mixed-use building next to the 43rd Street station, will be affordable for lower-income residents. The second phase of the project is expected to be completed next year.

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As real estate giant prepares to open first office on Chicago's South Side, residents feel torn about the influx of development

CHICAGO — Since moving to Bronzeville in 2007, Vanessa Harris has seen the many vacant lots in the South Side neighborhood get scooped up by developers and turned into $800,000 townhomes, some of them right outside her window.

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5 Midwest cities steeped in Black history to visit in 2023

CHICAGO — The Chicago area is undeniably teeming with the stories and contributions of historic African Americans, from the legacy of the Bronzeville neighborhood, to the DuSable Black History Museum and the Pullman National Monument.

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Bronzeville Trail Task Force launches petition to award Congressional Gold Medal to Black cyclist ‘Major’ Taylor

Chicago leaders say a plan by the Bronzeville Trail Task Force intends to spotlight “Major” Taylor — a champion Black cyclist whose name has often been lost in history books.

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Worker hospitalized in ‘grave’ condition after building collapse in Bronzeville

The collapse occurred shortly after 11 a.m. in the 700 block of East Oakwood Boulevard, Chicago fire officials said.

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Bronzeville’s legacy poised to finally get its due with National Heritage Area

The Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area can help tell that story of what it has meant to be Black while living, working and playing in this city.

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Congress creates Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area on Chicago’s South Side

The designation will help preserve over 200 historical assets in Bronzeville and bring up to $1 million annually to the area over a 10- to 15-year span.

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