Brazers
The intersection of Cermak Road and California Avenue in Chicago’s Marshall Square (Little Village) neighborhood has long been an area of the neighborhood where intense …
Gangs
Black P Stones
By the year 1959 almost 90% of the white population had abandoned Woodlawn leaving extreme blight and abandonment of businesses and properties. Black street gangs …
14th Street Clovers
The story of the Clovers dates back to the year 1949 in the Maxwell Street Market section of the Near West Side neighborhood. Black southerners …
Imperial Chaplains
Black southerners had been migrating to the Near West Side for decades before the 1940s but migration picked up in the early 1940s and blacks …