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Lawsuit Filed to Block Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

The Chicago Crusader, NNPA MemberJune 14, 2018

The lawsuit was filed on Monday, May 14 by “Protect Our Parks,” a nonprofit organization that seeks a court order to “bar the Park District and the City from approving the building of the Presidential Center and from conveying any interest in or control of the Jackson Park site to the Foundation.”

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Developer Sells Chicago Property, Later Discovers Emmett Till Lived There

Erick Johnson NNPA Member, The Chicago CrusaderAugust 12, 2016

It looks like an ordinary building on the South Side, but its occupants were not. For 121 years, the two-story structure has stood in Chicago’s predominately Black Woodlawn neighborhood. An unassuming edifice built with Chicago’s muscular red brick, it’s a piece of Black history that was recently sold before the owner found out that Mamie Till-Mobley and her son, Emmet Till, once lived there.