Chicago People, Places & the Past Alphabet, part 3 (S-Z)

The city whose dynamism pulses through its skyscraper lined streets; the city of diversity, of countless stories of success and struggle; the city where, on November 4, history was written, adding yet another chapter to the list of monumental moments in its past. This is Chicago, eight million people, designing their places, living their dreams, [...]

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Chicago People, Places & the Past Alphabet (part II, J-R)

The city whose dynamism pulses through its skyscraper lined streets; the city of diversity, of countless stories of success and struggle; the city where, on November 4, history was written, adding yet another chapter to the list of monumental moments in its past. This is Chicago, eight million people, designing their places, living their dreams, [...]

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Chicago People, Places & the Past Alphabet (Part 1, A-I)

The city whose dynamism pulses through its skyscraper lined streets; the city of diversity, of countless stories of success and struggle; the city where, on November 4, history was written, adding yet another chapter to the list of monumental moments in its past. This is Chicago, eight million people, designing their places, living their dreams, [...]

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For 100 years under the wings of God: Chicago’s Christian Chinese celebrate an age of worship

In 1908, about 60 Chinese women and 1500 Chinese men lived in Chicago. As they adapted to their new homeland, they also adopted some of its cultural and religious practices. Many Chinese became Christians and laid the foundations for a vibrant Chinese religious community in Chicago, which continues to blossom into the present. This Sunday, [...]

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Chicago’s Afro-Americans celebrate milestone, but ‘the fight ain’t over yet’

Only eighty years ago, their ancestors were hunted down the streets of Chicago during what became known as the great Race Riots of 1919. On a beautiful Tuesday night in November 2008, tens of thousands of Afro-Americans celebrated the election of Barack Obama in the parks and on the streets of the city that had [...]

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Horrors of Holodomor kept alive by Chicago’s Ukrainian community

Seventy-five years ago, during the harsh Ukrainian winter of 1933, between three and ten million people lost their lives by starvation through hunger in what was one of the greatest human tragedies of the twentieth century. Purposefully inflicted upon the Ukrainian people, who resisted Stalin’s program of agricultural collectivization, or primarily caused by natural disasters, [...]

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