Brass plaques with the names of Holocaust victims line the sidewalks throughout Germany. It was these Stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones," that were the inspiration for a Chicago project that aims to ...

Sunday, July 27, 1919, broke warm in Chicago. Bobbing in Lake Michigan as he clutched a railroad tie for flotation, 17-year-old Eugene Williams drifted across an unmarked but lethal boundary that ...

One hundred years ago this summer, a black teen on a raft crossed an imaginary line into a “white” section of a Lake Michigan beach, was stoned by white bathers and drowned. The interracial battle on ...

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Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction, Draft Day) has signed on to star in Chicago 1919, an indie drama inspired by the true story of the Chicago race riots which began with the murder of a young Africa ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Events are scheduled Saturday to commemorate a dark time in Chicago's history -- the Race Riots of 1919. It was known as the "Red Summer." This is the third year organizers have ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two years before the Tulsa Race Massacre, Chicago saw its own race riots when 38 people were killed. Chicago's racial divide deepened in the summer of 1919. Deadly race riots began ...

Chicago (CBS) -- One hundred years ago this summer, one of the most tragic chapters in Chicago history started on a beach and spread three miles. Race riots killed nearly 40 Chicagoans and destroyed ...

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