As America turns 250 years old, CBS News Chicago is exploring Chicago's influence on the nation, including during the Great ...
Heeding the clarion call from the Chicago Defender, the African-American newspaper that painted a picture of northern ...
Andre Guichard's ancestors left Louisiana for Chicago in the early 20th century. They were part of the Great Migration, a movement of more than 5 million Black Americans who moved from the rural South ...
Founded in 1940 by a group of artists devoted to capturing images of black life in flux during the Great Migration, Chicago’s historic South Side Community Art Center became a designated Chicago ...
Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled the U.S. Department of Transportation must stop withholding over $3 billion dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority.
Starting in 1916, more than 7 million Black Americans left the South, and Chicago became one of the primary destinations of the Great Migration, with hundreds of thousands settling in the city; ...