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

by Sam Joyce July 22, 2020July 25, 2020

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 […]

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