May 2008

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March 17, 2008
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Congressman Rush, community work to both preserve rich legacy of Chicago’s southside

CHICAGO—Determined to preserve the rich legacy of Chicago’s southside, a community coalition has joined Congressman Bobby L. Rush in an effort to designate the Black Metropolis District, including the historic Bronzeville area, of Chicago as a National Heritage Area.

According to the National Park Service, “a national heritage area is a place designated by the United States Congress where natural, cultural, historic and recreational resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally-distinctive landscape arising from patterns of human activity shaped by geography.”

On February 29, the last day of Black History Month, Rep. Rush introduced a bill to the House of Representatives, titled HR 5505: Black Metropolis District National Heritage Area Study Act, which calls for the federal government to “conduct a study to determine the feasibility” of designating the study area a national heritage area.

Black Metropolis District “has a cohesive and distinctive history that is worthy of national heritage designation,” said Rep. Rush. “This is more than nostalgia; by highlighting the past, we can inspire the future.”

Supporters of HR 5505 believe the effort will help revitalize the area culturally and economically, without compromising its history, which includes great accomplishments in culture, business, sports, education, health care, labor, politics, religion and social justice.

“The designation will support the ongoing development of Bronzeville as an international heritage tourism destination,” said Paula Robinson, President of Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Project.

The designated study area roughly stretches between Lake Michigan at some points and the Dan Ryan, from 18th street to 71st Street. The area includes the neighborhoods of Oakland, Kenwood, Washington Park, Grand Boulevard, Douglass, and Woodlawn.

The term Bronzeville was created by a then Chicago Bee newspaper editor. The First Mayor of Bronzeville was selected in 1934. The editor left the Bee and went to work for the Chicago Defender, where the term was made popular. Later, the heart of the study area was unofficially dubbed “Black Metropolis” following a landmark 1945 sociological study with that same title.

“The Illinois Institute of Technology is proud to be a long time member of the Bronzeville community and we are excited about the opportunities to help preserve the wonderful legacy of this area,” said David Baker, vice president of external affairs for IIT. “We plan to work with the Congressman to support the bill in Washington and to help with the creation of the National Heritage Area once it is designated.”

The Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District currently has nine structures designated as Chicago landmarks: Overton Hygienic Building, Chicago Bee Building, Wabash Avenue YMCA, Chicago Defender Building, Unity Hall, Eighth Regiment Armory, Sunset Cafe, Victory Monument, and Supreme Life Building.

“This is great, not just for the southside of Chicago, but it’s great for the entire city of Chicago and state of Illinois,” said Jan Kostner, Deputy Director, Illinois Bureau of Tourism, “Visitors from all over the world will have an opportunity to see firsthand the tremendous accomplishments of African Americans in business, politics, education, and so many other areas.”

Once the study is complete, Rep. Rush will draft another bill to actually designate the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District a national heritage area.

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CHA Plan for Transformation poses challenges for Bronzeville

by Marisol Rodriguez
Mar 20, 2008
Lee Peebles, 74, lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes for 46 years – until they were demolished.

Marisol Rodriguez/Medill

Lee Peebles, 74, is content with her new public housing unit at Oakwood Shores.

Since 2005 she’s been happily sharing a two-bedroom apartment with her grandson Jeremy Day at Oakwood Shores, one of the new mixed-income developments built as part of the Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation.

“I love where I am,” Peebles said. “I thought they could rehab [Wells], but they said the pipes were corroded too bad.”

Peebles is an anomaly. Just as soon as the Wells homes were gone, Peebles had her apartment at Oakwood Shores waiting for her to move in to.

Thousands of CHA residents were left to find a place to live during the interim of demolition and reconstruction, primarily through the use of Section 8 vouchers, through which renters pay a fraction of the rent.

Advocates for the displaced residents say that the shabby system of temporary relocation of these residents has left many in the Bronzeville/Mid South community skeptical of CHA’s vision and the de facto future benefits of the plan for this historically black community.

The Plan for Transformation was initiated in 1999 by CHA as an answer to the isolated pockets of public housing where drug abuse and crime became heavily concentrated.

Over the 10-year-plan, CHA is planning to spend $1.5 billion to rehabilitate or rebuild 25,000 public housing units, most within mixed-income developments.

At the end of 2007, CHA had completed 64.7 percent of the proposed housing goal, with 16,172 units built, according to CHA spokesman Bryan Zises.

“The Plan for Transformation is about saying, ‘You know what, we are all Chicagoans, lets take down these [high rises] and integrate the people into the rest of our society,” Zises said.

CHA has attempted to economically integrate residents of the new housing developments by allocating one-third of the units as public housing, one-third as affordable housing and one-third as market-rate housing.

However, the total 25,000 units of public housing promised by the plan falls short of the 39,000 units of public housing CHA had before implementing the plan.

According to the CHA, only 24,500 units were occupied as of October 1999, around the time the plan was implemented.

Despite this figure, some in the Bronzeville/Mid South area are critical of the fact that the original amount of public housing is being reduced substantially.

Jay Travis, director of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization, said that out of 4,086 units of public housing that once compromised the Lake Michigan, Madden Park/Darrow and Ida B. Wells Homes, only 1,320 units of CHA replacement units will be left after the plan is complete.

One neighborhood expert said the public housing residents who have had to find housing after the demolition have mostly moved farther south to areas like South Shore, Englewood and Roseland, presenting new challenges to these South Side neighborhoods and reinforcing traditional patterns of racial composition.

According to Harold L. Lucas, longtime Bronzeville resident and founder of the Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council, the influx of public housing residents into the South Side has left Chicago’s black community just as regionally segregated as it has always been, only with additional negative impacts.

“The antisocial behaviors that were contained in public housing have also been transferred into more stable communities further south,” Lucas said.

The antisocial behaviors Lucas refers to are the drug and crime problems that Chicago public housing was, at one point, nationally recognized for. “You don’t break those [antisocial] patterns overnight,” Lucas said. “They are endemic to the culture of poverty.”

Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) said the plan has horizontally concentrated the poor, while traditional public housing vertically concentrated them. Horizontal concentration means by neighborhood; vertically concentrated, in high rises.

“The problem is that it was all done at once,” Preckwinkle said. “There wasn’t very much thought given as to what was going to happen to people between the time their buildings were torn down and the new buildings were built.”

The mixed-income developments that now offer housing in the Bronzeville/Mid South area are Oakwood Shores, Jazz on the Boulevard and Lake Park Crescent.

Lee Peebles who lives in one of the 126 public housing units at Oakwood Shores pays one third of her income to rent costs.

Market rate housing at the development costs about $1.25 per square foot; apartments range from 700 to 1,300 square feet, according to Joseph Williams, president and chairman of Granite Development, one of Oakwood Shores’ private developers.

To qualify to live in these new mixed-income communities, residents have to meet what some view as a stringent CHA leasing compliancy as well as additional requirements made by the private developers of each respective mixed-income site.

Such criteria, which are listed in the CHA’s Admissions and Continued Occupancy Policy, include rules governing work. For instance, applicants between the ages of 18 and 61 have to be employed a minimum of 15 hours per week at admission and 20 hours a week after two years of residency.

Non-compliance can result in eviction.

Applicants are subject to rejection based on past criminal activity.

Requirements that consider criminal history have the potential, some say, to leave black men out of new developments due to the epidemic rate of imprisonment of black males in the United States.

A study by a Washington D.C. research and advocacy group, the Sentencing Project, reported that 2,020 black men were imprisoned in Illinois, compared to 223 white men in 2005.

Private developers used community input to come up with their respective residency criteria. Preckwinkle and her constituents were involved in this process.

“We deliberately instituted very high standards for all residents in our new developments because we didn’t want new housing to be perceived in the same way that the old was,” Preckwinkle said.

Problems with the old, she said, included, “That they were places that were a refuge for people who had substance-abuse problems, weren’t working, criminal background and all the rest of it.”

The alderman added that what she called the high standard residency requirements were also a way to attract affordable housing and market-rate families who might have safety concerns due to the stigma public housing residents carry with them.

Lucas said that these public housing residents – he referred to them as “the best of the best” – will ultimately have to face issues of displacement because, in his opinion, the Plan for Transformation is an attempt to gentrify the community and prepare it for upscale redevelopment.

Lucas is convinced that the success of public housing residents lies with their ability to move up the socio-economic latter and to hold jobs that will enable them to pay market rate housing costs.

“At some point the goal is economic self-sufficiency and getting people to the point where they can pay their own bills,” Lucas said.

Neighborhoods across Chicago have struggled with gentrification.

The communities that have been seemingly successful in preventing displacement are those that have established themselves as unique ethnic neighborhoods—such as the Puerto Rican community in the West Town/Humboldt Park area.

This community has used landmarks, such as the pair of Puerto Rican steel flags that stand over Division Street as well creating and supporting Puerto Rican-owned businesses to define their neighborhood.

According to Lucas, the preservation of Bronzeville as an African-American cultural and historical district will provide this community with the stronghold it needs to secure its place during this period of transformation.

“We have the premiere tourism destination in the entire country on the Great Migration experience,” said Lucas, who leads tour groups through Bronzeville. He added that 46 percent of the Great Migration landmark buildings are in Bronzeville.

There is no question Bronzeville is changing, to the drum of the CHA Plan for Transformation. Some in the community embrace these changes, such as Lee Peebles of Oakwood Shores, and others are skeptical, such as Lucas.

But neither is willing to give up their place in Bronzeville.

When Peebles moved out of Wells into Oakwood Shores, she said leaving her new apartment would mean the undertaker was coming to get her.

“I don’t ever want to move,” she said.

Marisol Rodriguez/Medill

Oakwood Shores replaced longstanding, and decrepit, CHA housing stock.

Marisol Rodriguez/Medill

This building on the 3800 block of Ellis Avenue is where Peebles has lived for the past couple of years.

Marisol Rodriguez/Medill

Left-over public housing, pre-Plan for Transformation, can still be found in the Bronzeville/Mid South area.

Community retail needs begin to be met

Housing redevelopment in Bronzeville/Mid South has been followed by initiatives for improved quality of life for the residents of this area, specifically in the realms of transportation, retail and amenities.

The newest, Reconnecting Neighborhoods, is a study administered by the Metropolitan Planning Council in partnership with the City of Chicago, the Regional Transportation Authority and HNTB, a multidisciplinary engineering and architecture firm specializing in such areas as urban design.

Reconnecting Neighborhoods has met three times since November. All three have been directed at attracting Bronzeville/Mid South community members to share the changes they want to see in their neighborhood.

This study is also being conducted in the Near North and Near West, areas also being redeveloped via the Plan for Transformation.

The feedback will be gathered and compiled into a report to the study’s partnering agencies this November, according to Brandon Johnson, project manager for Reconnecting Neighborhoods.

Increased retail options were a significant part of the conversation at all of the community meetings.

Belinda Sparks, a Bronzeville homeowner, thought it was wonderful that this community need was being addressed.

Bernita Johnson-Gabriel, director of the New Communities Program of Quad Communities Development Corporation, has been most involved with the retail portion of the initiative. NCP is a long-term initiative to foster community-led development.

The overwhelming majority of retail options in the Bronzeville area are limited to beauty supply stores, nail salons and dollar stores, according to Johnson-Gabriel. “We have enough of those [businesses],” she said. “We are not trying to get rid of them, but we need other things to help balance those businesses.”

A 2004 survey prepared by Metro Edge for QCDC reported that Bronzeville residents saw the biggest need for food stores in their neighborhood, followed by restaurants.

Over the past couple of years, a number of community-owned businesses have opened up with the support of QCDC. Included coffee shops, shoe stores and a restaurant.

While the mixed-income developments may appear to pose a challenge in catering to residents of different income brackets, Johnson-Gabriel noted that Bronzeville has historically been a mixed-income community, initially due to the restrictive covenants that forced all black Chicagoans, regardless of their income, to live on the South Side.

While there has been an influx of public housing residents in the Bronzeville area, a number of middle- to upper-income black families continue to live in the neighborhood, according to Johnson-Gabriel.

“There has to be retail that will cover every segment of our economic population,” Johnson-Gabriel said. “We’re looking for a medium retail mix that has good quality goods and services.”

With the help of the Mayor’s Office of Special Events, QCDC has most recently succeeded in bringing Bronzeville a farmers market, which is scheduled to run every Sunday. The market will be open from June to October.

“We saw that other communities had healthy and vibrant farmers markets and we were wondering why Bronzeville didn’t have one,” Johnson-Gabriel said.

In past years Bronzeville had a farmer’s market in the parking lot of Dunbar High School; it eventually dwindled to one farmer, who occasionally showed up.

QCDC is working on creating a commercial/retail center on South Cottage Grove Avenue, between 44th and 47th streets.

Johnson-Gabriel said that residents need to have a central place they can shop for a variety of goods instead of having to travel to different places, depending on what they need.

“What we have to do is create clusters of businesses,” Johnson-Gabriel said. “We have to create critical mass.”

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=84621

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On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM, the Bronzeville Community Development Partnership (BCDP) hosted a legislative reception and dinner celebration in the lower level lounge of Sebastian's Hideout in downtown Springfield Illinois. The legislative orientation reception was convened by the BCDP to educate African American legislators in the Illinois General Assembly on the importance of supporting African American heritage tourism development in Illinois. Bill Williams VP at the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau and board member of the BMC&TC (Right in photo) makes a point during the lively and entertaining orientation session. Other legislative and civic engagement leadership participating in the session included Rep. Ester Golar 3rd Dist., Sharon Morgan, Gina V Driskell, Deborah Cuzan, State Senator Mattie Hunter 3rd Dist, State Senator Emil Jones Jr.14th Dist, Anne Walker, Cheryl Colbert and Paula Robinson.

The Illinois Governor's Conference on Tourism & Legislative orientation session -
February 13 to 15, 2008 Springfield, IL

By:
Gina V Driskell
marychances@yahoo.com

I had the opportunity to attend the Governor's Conference on Tourism as part of the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center and Black Metropolis National Heritage Area delegation. The tourism conference, for the seven visitor destination regions in Illinois included sessions on marketing, trends, partnering, international recognition and Internet communication and presence. The sessions designed to stimulate and make aware the different avenues, if not traveled, should be looked into for the regional bureaus to up the ante on visitors to their region. And of course the greening of the travel experience on all levels was the hot topic.

The Bronzeville delegation's reason for attending the conference was to bring awareness to the other regions and to make known the African American experience in Illinois needs to be recognized, that areas need to be preserved and funding for preservation and education is sorely needed. Not just in the Chicago region but through out Illinois, more recognition is needed to help remind visitors of the African American experience. There is not enough being done to document and preserve the movement and settlement of the African American throughout Illinois.

The Bronzeville delegation hosted a dinner and orientation session on the first evening of the conference to make state legislators aware these funds are urgently needed for the preservation, restoration, development and education of specific areas in Bronzeville and the Black Metropolis National Heritage Area that are an integral part of the African American experience not just in Chicago but throughout all of Illinois.

Illinois does not want to lose its link to the rest of the nation in documenting the Great Migration and experience of the African American in the United States. Chicago has a vast history to preserve to keep the experience of the African American migration alive. The Bronzeville Visitor Information Center presence was a strong reminder that the African American experience though ongoing, needs legislative help in preservation and education and more should be done for the African American tour experience in Chicago as well as Illinois. Funding for the African American tour experience is necessary and vital.

The conference was an excellent opportunity to further the message of the historic Bronzeville experience, the Black Metropolis Heritage National Area and the coming Great Migration Centennial to the legislators and other attendees. We came away with information to help us remain up to date and on track with the tourism plan as it relates to the other Illinois destination regions and the African American experience. As well, we were there to continue to remind those the African American experience in Illinois and of course Bronzeville, still exists and needs to be preserved and funded.

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Hotel planned near McCormick Place
Developer to buy site west of new building

By Kathy Bergen | Tribune staff reporter
January 8, 2008

Skokie-based Alter Group on Monday confirmed it has an agreement to pay $70 million for a 3.7-acre site directly across from McCormick Place's new West Building, where it would like to build a convention hotel of at least 1,000 rooms, along with some retail and residential units.

The plans, first reported by Crain's Chicago Business, could include a casino, though "it's not very high on our list of expected uses here," said Richard Gatto, executive vice president of the commercial real estate development firm.

The state has yet to decide whether it would authorize a downtown casino as part of a plan to rescue public transit. If it did so there likely would be heated competition for the new license.

The Alter Group plan targets a parcel directly across Cermak Road, between Prairie and Calumet Avenues.

It is directly east of a parcel being pursued for potential hotel development by the Metropolitian Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates McCormick Place and Navy Pier. The authority, also known as McPier, will continue its eminent domain proceedings to acquire a Cermak Road parcel between Indiana and Prairie Avenues, Chief Executive Juan Ochoa said Monday.

"Over the last two years we have seen several plans for hotels by this owner," Ochoa said, noting that those plans have not translated into a project yet. "So we will continue the process unless we see something that is very concrete."

McPier also is planning a 600-room expansion of the 800-room Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, the existing convention hotel at the convention center.

Maine-based developers Pam Gleichman and Karl Norberg own the parcel to be sold to the Alter Group. They also own part of the parcel that McPier is pursuing for its plans. They could not be reached Monday.

The speed with which McPier proceeds with its site acquisition will depend on whether Illinois lawmakers approve its request for a debt restructuring, Ochoa said.

"If it is passed we can do it quickly," he said. "Otherwise, we'll have to be very fiscally conscious of what it would mean for the authority."

Meanwhile, the Alter Group "is in very early stages of due diligence" on its land purchase, Gatto said, adding that he would like to see the deal close at some point in 2008. It would take another 18 months to two years to build the hotel, he said.

kbergen@tribune.com

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TIME Magazine
Business in Bronzeville
Monday, April 18, 1938

Although Chicago has 100,000 fewer Negroes than New York, it is the centre of U. S. Negro business; last census figures showed Chicago's Negro establishments had annual net sales of $4,826,897, New York's were only $3,322,274. Chicago's Negroes all hail from the South, work generally as laborers in packing plants and steel mills, have a community feeling; New York's are less homogenous, work mostly in hotels and apartments. Great majority of Chicago's Negroes live in a south side section known as Bronzeville. Here the principal shopping districts are on 43rd, 47th, sist and syth Streets. Virtually all of this property belongs to whites, most of them Jews, and they make it tough for Negroes to go into business in these prize areas. Leases generally have clauses forbidding Negro tenants; and if a Negro manages to wangle a lease anyway, he is apt to find his rent tripled when the lease comes up for renewal.

When the Jones Brothers started the world's only Negro-owned department store they had to buy the property to get onto 47th Street. When dapper little Frank Howell Jr. started Mae's Dress Shoppe, he was forced to pay six-and-a-half months' rent in advance. This smoldered in Negro Howell's breast and continued to as he prospered. After Marva Trotter, fiancée of Prizefighter Joe Louis, bought her trousseau from Frank Howell, four other Mae's Dress Shoppes were started by rivals eager to cash in on the publicity; but Frank Howell's Original Mae's Dress Shoppe is today the biggest and most fashionable in Bronzeville.

Now something of a tycoon, Frank Howell decided to organize other Bronzeville bigwigs, hold a two-day Exposition of Negro Business for the double purpose of spurring Negro business and arranging a program to fight "fleecing" by whites. So last week to the shabby 8th Regiment Armory trooped no less than 110,000 Negroes to watch fashion shows, finger fancy caskets, see demonstrations of pressing the kink out of Negro hair, listen to church choirs and hot bands, munch free handouts or purchase raffle tickets from the 75 booths. No Negro gathering is complete without Joe Louis and he was on hand opening day to cut a ribbon across the door. As usual he was surrounded with admiring pickaninnies who well know his bodyguard's penchant of giving dollar bills to moppets so they will leave Joe alone.

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Bronzeville International Summit
&
Summer 2007 Heritage Tourism Review

Bronzeville Summit –
A Showcase of Development and Information about Bronzeville Today

Chicago, September 14, 2007 - Greeted by a standing ovation, Congressman Bobby L. Rush was the morning keynote speaker at the all day Bronzeville International Summit, convened by the Bronzeville Community Development Partnership on September 14, 2007 in the newly opened west building of the McCormick Place Convention Center.

Approximately 100 dedicated urban preservationists, community developers, city planners, students and other heritage tourism advocates blocked out their busy schedules to hear Congressman Rush, Democrat 1st District, in his opening address commit the power of his congressional seniority toward the creation of federal legislation in support of designating the Black Metropolis Historic District as a National Heritage Area.

The Bronzeville Community Development Partnership hosted the 2007 Summit, Bronzeville International. The summit showcased current projects in the Bronzeville Community Development Planning Studio and launched its formal bid to establish a Black Metropolis National Heritage Area. The event had the authentic distinction of being the first community/public event in the newly opened McCormick Place West building and celebrated the installation of the Bronzeville Portal on 23rd & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, marking the civic gate of the world’s largest convention center.

Bronzeville is Chicago’s Black Metropolis, a historic “city-within-a-city” destination where more than a half million southern migrant families in search of a northern “promised land” adapted, innovated and thrived. They inhabited a narrow boundary know as the “Black Belt” which stretched along Chicago’s south lakefront. Their unique experience is imprinted in the music, literature and civil rights struggles of this amazing era. Some of the country’s great cultural and entrepreneurial business contributions were born here and have had a great impact on the world.

Over the last 15 years, the descendants of this rich history have worked with the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and partners like the National Trust for Historic Preservation to preserve Bronzeville’s environment, the stories of its people and places and most importantly, its vision of promise for new opportunities and a better life.

The National Park Service has recognized the Great Migration as a nationally significant American Story and invited the neighborhoods that constitute Chicago’s legendary Black Metropolis to broaden their collaborative efforts towards securing a National Heritage Area (NHA) designation. There are currently 37 NHAs that have sustained their economic revitalization strategies through these congressional designations and the implementation of a comprehensive management plan. NHAs are eligible to attract $1 million a year in matching federal funds over a 10-15 year period.

Heritage Partners have pledged their long term support through community-based investment, in-kind services, resources and cash contributions or grants. Multi-year investment partners of $100,000 or more including East Lake Management and Development Corporation and Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) have signed Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs).

“Illinois Institute of Technology is pleased to be a collaborative partner in the continued revitalization of the Bronzeville community and the proposed Black Metropolis National Heritage Area,” said John L. Anderson, president of IIT. “We invite others to be a part of this bold, historic and innovative initiative.”

Speakers at the Bronzeville International Summit event included:

· Congressman Bobby Rush

· Jan Kostner, Director of Illinois Bureau of Tourism

· John Cosgrove, President, Alliance of National Heritage Areas

· Paula Robinson, Managing Partner, Bronzeville Community Development Partnership

· Lilia Rach , Associate Dean and HVS International Chair at the Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management at New York University.

· Lee Bey, Executive Director, Chicago Central Area Committee

Community, business, political leaders and students attending the 2007 Summit Bronzeville International gained insight through these and other speakers, historical films, an Internet cafe, workshops and exhibits on current Bronzeville projects.

“We are beginning the process of establishing the Black Metropolis National Heritage Area in Bronzeville,” said Paula Robinson. “Our hope is that the summit ignited a spark and generated community enthusiasm for this inclusive, bottom-up grassroots effort.”

Sponsors of the 2007 Summit Bronzeville International included:

Illinois Institute of Technology

Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity

Metropolis Pier & Exposition Authority

Illinois Bureau of Tourism

Black Metropolis Convention & Tourism Council

Local Initiative Support Corporation

Quad Community Development Corporation

Partnership for New Communities

University of Chicago

National City Bank

Shorebank Corporation

Wexford Technology

Capri Capital Partners

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Bronzeville Heritage Tourism Review
Summer 2007

As the historic Bronzeville community continues to emerge as a premier African American heritage tourism destination, the tourism, hospitality and capacity building business development services provided to the general public and local residents of the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center continues to grow and expand. The following photos and captions provide our web site readers and interested cultural heritage travelers with some insights into events and attractions involving Bronzeville from an international perspective.

* Click here to view the photo gallery *

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Northwestern University Video Links

Please click the links below to hear interviews on the Bronzeville community from Northwestern University:

https://depot.northwestern.edu/dms272/public_html/BVILLEhistory.mov?uniq=vfl3nc

https://depot.northwestern.edu/dms272/public_html/JEWEL.mov?uniq=vfl3nu

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BRONZEVILLE DOCU SHORT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbeeZdXkOY