Monday marks 107 years since the start of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, and a seven-mile bike and bus tour of sites related to the history of the riot is planned for this weekend.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of cyclists gathered Saturday to honor those who lost their lives during the 1919 Chicago Race Riot. The event marked the ...

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One hundred years ago this summer, a black teen on a raft crossed an imaginary line into a “white” section of a Lake Michigan beach, was stoned by white bathers and drowned. The interracial battle on ...

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More than a century after the start of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, the city is commemorating all 38 people killed during one of its worst episodes of racial violence. The big picture: As part of the ...

Brass plaques with the names of Holocaust victims line the sidewalks throughout Germany. It was these Stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones," that were the inspiration for a Chicago project that aims to ...

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project is currently raising money to install public works of art around the city to commemorate where 38 people were killed during a racially motivated ...

Sunday, July 27, 1919, broke warm in Chicago. Bobbing in Lake Michigan as he clutched a railroad tie for flotation, 17-year-old Eugene Williams drifted across an unmarked but lethal boundary that ...