Article: Remembering Chicago as the `Promised Land' // Dreams and Despair

The Promised Land (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) A five-part documentary on cable's Discovery Channel. Parts 1 and 2: 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Part 3: 9 to 10 p.m. Monday. Part 4: 9 to 10 p.m. Tuesday. Part 5: 9 to 10 p.m. Wednesday. Repeats at midnight each night. The Discovery Channel will rerun the complete miniseries from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 18. B efore the days of Chicago's urban blight and gang-infested housing projects, the world's big-shouldered hog butcher represented a symbol of hope to exploited sharecroppers in the Deep South.

For thousands of migrants who left Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee a half-century ago, Chicago was the promised land - an exciting city where people ...

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