Bunker Hill Monument
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Genealogy
Riots to Renaissance (1919-1940)
DuSable to Obama | Riots to Renaissance
From Riots to Renaissance (1919-1940)
World War I and the Great Migration had a tremendous impact on black Chicago. Industrial jobs that were previously closed to blacks were thrown open to meet the demands of the war.
Early Chicago: The Great Fire
DuSable to Obama | Early Chicago | The Great Fire
Early Chicago: Jean Baptiste DuSable
DuSable to Obama | Early Chicago | Jean Baptiste DuSable
Early Chicago (1779-1918)
DuSable to Obama | Early Chicago
Early Chicago (1779-1918)
Chicago was a vast and unwelcoming frontier when Jean Baptiste DuSable, a free man of African descent, opened a trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River and set
DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis
DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis
DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis tells the history of Chicago's African-American community as never before, through the voices of its leading citizens, scholars, artists, politicians, and business leaders.
About | Chefs off the Clock
About
- Directed By
- Gail Grasso
- Executive Producer
- Anne Gleason
- Co-Executive Producers
- Becky Liscum
- Gail Grasso
- Produced By
- Becky Liscum
- Camera/Sound
- John Kilpatrick
- Richard Hemingway
- G
Wuthering Heights
Justin Henderson
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë’s only novel and one that has inspired many a dramatic adaptation, revolves around the orphan Heathcliff and his tempestuous relationship with the wealthy Catherine Ea
White Teeth | The Great American Read
Justin Henderson
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis.
Where the Red Fern Grows | The Great American Read
Justin Henderson
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows is a beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man’s best friend.
The Wheel of Time | The Great American Read
Justin Henderson
The Wheel of Time (series)
by Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson
The Wheel of Time is a series of fantasy novels set in an unnamed imaginary world.
Watchers | The Great American Read
Justin Henderson
Watchers
by Dean Koontz
A “superior thriller” (akland Press) abouta man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
War and Peace | The Great American Read
Justin Henderson
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (1869) is one of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpieces of literary realism, detailing how Tsarist Russia must face the rise of the French emperor Napoléon, and how both halves of the title can complicate romant
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