In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived in ramshackle ...
Over 2,000 Northwestern students upvoted a post on Fizz, a college-specific social media platform, in March featuring a ...
Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s ...
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I’ve known Jonathan Power for over 25 years. But I met him again in his new book, "When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job?" ...
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The wind-chill that night registered at 18 degrees. It was a lethal cold that Faleti could no longer fight. Homeless and ...
(Chicago American) Another was Ada Celeste Sweet ... with the juvenile and adult delinquents who are the products of slums and blighted, ugly, depressing districts,” she wrote in an unpublished ...
Good morning, Chicago. Nearly half a billion dollars in taxable real estate value has been added onto the Cook County rolls after the county assessor fixed hundreds of mistakes identified in an ...