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History, Home by Home: A new examination of Hyde Park and Kenwood paints a pleasantly thorough but incomplete picture

is time in Hyde Park, the poet Langston Hughes wrote in the pages of the Chicago Defender, helped him understand how the luxuries of a wealthy neighborhood “can make people who live clean, quiet, library lives scornful of those whose lives are shattered by the roar of the el trains.” But even before white flight […]