Miller started the Central Uptown Chicago Association ... “There was a major push right out of World War II for people to get out of the cities, which were considered crowded and dirty and ...

Yesterday as I was reading up on Martin Luther King and racial tensions in Chicago ... of Uptown and the poor Appalachian whites who moved there en masse during and after WWII (there's not much ...

“And then during and after World War II, there’s an amazing demand ... and enjoy an active nightlife. The Uptown Theater — at the time, Chicago’s second-largest entertainment venue ...

In Uptown after World War II, large six-flat apartments were chopped ... And so the Finance Committee of the Chicago City Council moved last September to settle the 11-year-old lawsuit currently ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Uptown Theatre opened in 1925 as a movie and Vaudeville house for the Balaban & Katz movie chain. The massive venue at 4816 N. Broadway was designed by brothers Cornelius and ...