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: Latino Migration Story, using census records
While the larger trend of Latinos coming to DeKalb County starts in the 1960s, there...
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Fear: Ku Klux Klan, Shabbona in the 1930 and 1940s
Newspaper coverage in local communities can be complicated, especially when looking at syndicated articles or...
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Fear: Ku Klux Klan in Northern DeKalb County (Genoa, Kirkland, and Fairdale)
According to census records through 1950, Genoa was a community that did not include many...
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Fear: Ku Klux Klan, Shabbona in the 1920’s
The Shabbona Express newspaper also included several articles in the 1920s that referred to Klan...
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Hope: Black Migration Story
World War I cut the stream of Europeans coming to Northern factories, and employers turned...
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