Chicago's 1919 race riots, and their resonance today
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 23, 2019
3 minutes
It's not healthy to repress bad memories, yet we always try.
Perhaps that explains why Chicagoans have not memorialized the city's 1919 race riots, which erupted 100 years ago this week, very much.
Even the Fort Dearborn Massacre, a 15-minute battle in 1812 that U.S. soldiers lost to the Potawatomi Native Americans, has its own park and a majestic sculpture on the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
But the 1919 race riots, a catastrophe that
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