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  • East Humboldt Park Community Unites to Save Building and Mural from City's Wrecking Crews
    Comite Provisional Del Mejoramiento de Nuestra Comunidad/Provisional Committee to Better Our Community
    1978
    This press release, issued by the Provisional Committee to Better our Community, announces a press conference on March 31, 1978, at which the East Humboldt Park Community would call for the city of Chicago to halt its plans to demolish a residential [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1074915

  • Citizens keep round-the-clock vigil on threatened mural site
    Lowe, Frederick
    1978
    This newspaper article describes how residents of Chicago’s Humboldt Park community kept a 24-hour watch over the building that housed the mural Breaking the Chains (1971 by John Weber and collaborators) in order to prevent it from being razed by [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 857153