Bronzeville

A person walks out of Da Book Joint, a black owned and black author-focused bookstore on May 5, 2023, at Boxville in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood.

Holcomb had hoped to reopen in Bronzeville, but she couldn't find the right fit.

Photo courtesy of the Bronzeville Center for the Arts.

Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, Chicago’s urban historian, leads his Mahogany Bus Tour of Bronzeville in Chicago, on June 18, 2023.

The air-conditioned tour bus with tinted windows stopped outside Bright Star Baptist Church in Bronzeville and out came several dozen congregants from the Anshe Emet Synagogue of Lakeview.

A smattering of the singers, now graying and grandparents, have kept following Mr. Duncan’s gentle direction for so long since their high school years in Bronzeville.

Bronzeville was selected for the microgrid after a comprehensive study by ComEd.

Chicago Board of Education members confer during a recent monthly meeting in Bronzeville.

Kristen Harper works in the kitchen of her restaurant, Cleo’s Southern Cuisine, in Bronzeville on Jan.

The 78 could make the Sox, South Loop, Bronzeville and Chinatown big winners, and that’s without having to stuff a slot machine or throw a pair of dice.

The district is politically rooted on the West Side, with a leg on the near South Side, taking in parts of Bronzeville and Washington Park.

In 1917, in the Bronzeville area of Chicago, there were 731 black-owned businesses.

Less than an hour earlier, a man was shot in Bronzeville on the South Side.

In August 2004, the convert Harold Washington Cultural Center was opened to the public in the Bronzeville neighborhood.

Kelly's father was absent throughout his son's life. citation Kelly's family lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes public housing project in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. citation Lena McLin described Kelly's childhood home: "It was bare.