Artists highlight lasting impact of Chicago's 1919 race riot with glass markers in the Loop

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project has spent years installing memorials throughout the city to honor those ...

Walking in the Loop? Look down. You may be passing new markers of city’s Race Riot of 1919.

CRR19 co-director Franklin Cosey-Gay finds the project’s three newest markers, installed in July in the Loop, especially meaningful. On Saturday, he and co-director Peter Cole led a walking tour to ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Performers honor victims of 1919 Chicago Race Riot through dance, music and story: 'We're in this together'

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Western Illinois University

WIU Professor Hosts Historic Race Riot Walking Tour in Chicago on Nov. 8

MACOMB, IL - - The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19) is excited to host its first ever historic walking tour in Chicago's Loop from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. Peter ...
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The Negro in Chicago a study of race relations and a race riot in 1919

Foreword / by Honorable Frank O. Lowden -- Introduction -- The problem -- Ch. 1. The Chicago riot, July 27-August 2, 1919 -- Ch. 2. Other outbreaks in Illinois -- Ch. 3. The migration of Negroes from ...
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Another way home : the tangled roots of race in one Chicago family / Ronne Hartfield

Alpha: the long mysterious Exodus of death -- Beginnings: strange fates -- Sacred wounds -- On the place -- Matriarchy -- The lightning fields -- New Orleans -- Day and the city -- The ring -- A stern ...

Afternoon Briefing: Aldermen advance police misconduct settlement tied to disgraced detective

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, arrives to meet with fellow Republicans behind closed doors to discuss proposals on ending the government shutdown, at the ...