Eight Forty-Eight 8.29.11
By Eight Forty-EightEight Forty-Eight 8.29.11
By Eight Forty-EightMicah Maidenberg joins Eight Forty-Eight to discuss the history of the Viceroy Hotel, a derelict single-room-occupancy hotel on Chicago’s Near West Side set for redevelopment into affordable housing; and a local historian adds elaborative history of skid row and single-room-occupancy hotels in the city. And, Kristen McQueary, reporter for WBEZ and the Chicago News Cooperative, explains how more gambling in other states affects the bottom line—and what Illinois could learn from it. A wave of anti-black riots and lynchings consumed the country—and paralyzed the city of Chicago for a week—in the summer of 1919; WBEZ’s Richard Steele speaks to author Cameron McWhirter about his new book, Red Summer:The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America, which provides a detailed narrative account of the violent period.