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Plan to house migrants at former Chicago school delayed amid community pushback; mayor says city is...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOutside a former South Side elementary school that was chosen to shelter migrants arriving in...
Woodlawn Cemetery could help solve mystery of Tampa’s erased Black cemeteries
Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTAMPA — In 1900, the Tampa City Council agreed to stake off Woodlawn Cemetery’s “colored section.”...
Neighborhood pride competes with gentrification fears for Woodlawn residents coping with Obama...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen the road construction around the coming Obama Presidential Center kicked into a new phase last...
South Shore affordable housing protections to be proposed at City Council amid fears of Obama center...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoKori Robinson, 29, has lived in South Shore for more than two years and worries about her family’s...
City closes migrant shelter in former school on South Side
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe city has closed a South Side migrant shelter that had faced resistance from some neighborhood...
Gaston County mill added to the National Register of Historic Places
The Gaston Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAn abandoned textile mill in Gaston County was recently added to the National Register of Historic...
Woodlawn group welcomes migrants to community amid local and political opposition: ‘We have a lot of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen news broke that the old Wadsworth School building in Woodlawn would be turned into a shelter for migrants, some residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood loudly opposed the plan ...
Tempers flare at community meeting on migrant shelter opening in Chicago hotel
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCHICAGO -- Residents of three South Side lakefront communities demanded information from city staff...
ByGone Muncie: Railroad helped DeSoto overtake Clinton as center of Delaware County
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMUNCIE, Ind. – On Jan. 15, 1881, a Delaware Township landowner named Luther L. Perdieu filed a plat...
Police investigating homicide of woman, 25, found in South Side apartment with gunshot wound to face
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCHICAGO — Chicago police are investigating the homicide of a 25-year-old woman they say was...