What are your hopes for life after the pandemic? For this week’s Sunday Story, we’re sharing an excerpt from a collaborative poem entitled “We Grieve Yet We Gain” by Cass Junior High School’s seventh grade advanced ELA class. “We grieve the ability to make memories of warm friendships and blooming spring flowers. We lose the More
On this day in 1912, Louis Terkel was born in New York City. His family moved to Chicago when he was a child, where he found not only a new name, Studs, but a place that perfectly matched his own personality in its energy, swagger, charms, and heart. Studs and the city made a perfect More
On May 15, 1970, at 12:05 a.m., local and state law enforcement shot roughly 400 rounds and pieces of buckshot at a crowd on the campus of Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi. After nearly thirty seconds of this barrage, Phillip L. Gibbs, a twenty-one-year-old Jackson State junior, and James Earl Green, a seventeen-year-old high More
At 4:00 p.m. on the sunny afternoon of May 14, 1920, a cowboy hat-wearing mayor William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson cut the ribbon to open the upper level of the new Michigan Avenue bridge. Fireworks were shot into the sky, planes dropped booster literature, boats in the river sounded their whistles, and a band played More
Stories are a way of staying connected and engaged with one another, as well as passing on knowledge and preserving history. During this time of social isolation, our mission to collect and share Chicago’s stories is more important than ever. In This Together is our community-based initiative to collect digital records that capture personal experiences More