Elgin News Digest: Library event to focus on Black women’s activism post-Civil War; Elgin funeral home collecting Valentine’s cards for vets
Elgin pastor, scholar and author Felicia LaBoy will speak about significant Black women during the reconstruction after the ...
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: The mass deportation of Mexicans in 1954
Representatives of the American Civil ... during a deportation drive in Chicago. The group was being flown to Brownsville, Texas, and then put onboard a boat headed for Veracruz, Mexico. (Chicago ...
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Charles Dawes was a banker, general, vice president — and hit songwriter
Dawes’ father was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He himself was educated ... Camp at Fort Sheridan on Aug. 28, 1926. (Chicago Tribune historical photo) His wife Caro ...
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: Pardon me — Chicagoans who received clemency from a US president
Though she was one of dozens of women who broadcast over Japanese radio during World War II, Iva Toguri D’Aquino was the only one brought to trial. (Chicago Tribune) Interest in Toguri’s case ...