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Article: Celebrating Harold: a new cultural center embodies the vision of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and helps to revitalize the community.(Harold Washington Cultural Center)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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FORTY-seventh and South Park was one of the most famous corners in Black America, dreamed about and gossiped about, and occupied by landmark businesses and the legendary Regal Theater.
Year after year, the Duke Ellingtons, Count Basies and other royalty of African-American music made their way to this Chicago corner, and neighborHood youths, including a young man named Harold Washington, lined up to watch the parade of stars.
Then, suddenly, time and trends changed, the corner became 47th and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and the Regal was pushed into the background and razed.
But neither history nor the 'Hood forgot, and after an uphill ...