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Article: Remembering Chicago as the `Promised Land' // Dreams and Despair
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 9, 1995
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The Promised Land
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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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... ... tip. Today, the former factory worker has yet to find the promised land he had hoped for in Europe, seen by many Africans as a place ... airline ticket for his wife to join him. "The Chinese on the south side of town don't get bothered like this," he said, referring ...
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