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By Olivia Mahoney,Chicago Historical Society

The historical past of Chicago will be informed via its neighborhoods, and maybe none is extra telling than Douglas/Grand side road at the city's south aspect. the long run web site of the local remained a carefully settled prairie until eventually the early 1850s, while Stephen A. Douglas bought a wide tract of land and started constructing a residential subdivision for the rich. Douglas/Grand side road: A Chicago local explores the advance of this specific group and the various stumbling blocks its citizens encountered. initially a predominately white local, Douglas/Grand side road turned an African-American neighborhood through the nice Migration while hundreds of thousands of Southern blacks moved north looking better possibilities. After the 1919 Race insurrection, progressively more white citizens moved clear of the local, and the group turned a countrywide version of black achievement.

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