Lollapalooza has become a much beloved summer tradition, but it wasn’t always in the city of Chicago. In fact, it was in many cities. Its history can more or less be divided into two parts: when it was a traveling music festival with performances on two to three stages (1991–97, 2003) and when it was More
Though African American women have served as nurses and caretakers since the United States’ period of enslavement, Black women who wished to receive formal training in nursing were often denied the opportunity solely because of their race. In 1889, after Reverend Louis Reynolds’s sister Emma expressed her frustration with Chicago-area hospitals refusing to admit her More
One hundred and one years ago today, the Chicago Race Riot began with the murder of Eugene Williams and the failure of law enforcement to hold those responsible for his death accountable. On Sunday, July 27, 1919, thousands of Chicagoans sought relief from the brutal heat on the shores of Lake Michigan. Among them was More
On this day in 1941, Mamie and Louis Till celebrated the birth of their only son Emmett at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital. Like many African Americans of the era, Emmett’s parents were part of the millions of Blacks who migrated north during what is now known as the Great Migration—Mamie from Mississippi and Louis from More
After a nearly four-month delay, Major League Baseball begins its abbreviated sixty-game season today. This is not the first time baseball season has been cut short. Players’ strikes in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s led to canceled games, with the longest work stoppage occurring in 1994, resulting in the season being cut short by about More