It’s the city’s first-ever downtown roadway to honor an African-American woman; the cost is that Balbo’s street name remains intact.
Tag: Michelle Duster
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend
Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks’s favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper’s friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita
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Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed
The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago
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Fashion Focus Chicago 2009
Guide to the city-sponsored fashion event, which runs Thursday 10/22 through Sunday 10/26