Community: Caldwell family, Shabbona
Above image: Shabbona Grove School, 1921. Photo courtesy Shabbona-Lee-Rollo Historical Society. The Caldwell family story...
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Hope: Black Resort Community in Kirkland
Three newspaper articles cover a story about how a group of wealthy Blacks from St....
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Hope: Chicago Insulated Wire (later Anaconda), Sycamore
The story of Chicago Insulated Wire (later Anaconda) is complicated. In 1917, Sycamore manufacturing company,...
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Community: The Israel of God’s Church, White Horse Army
The Israel of God’s Church, White Horse Army [1] was first established in St. Louis,...
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