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For a history competition sponsored by the Hyde Park Historical Society, students from the photo and journalism clubs did a project on the Oakwoods Cemetery which borders the Pocket on the North side of 71st St. The cemetary only started allowing…

A man shows how he saw Jesus Christ three times on his two-year journey from British Guyana to the United States. He is the night watchman at the recycling plant near the Pocket and grows a one-acre plot of Heirloom tomatoes which he waters every…

A man poses wearing his mask from the Friday the 13th movies. He stand in front of Jimbo's Bar which was a local legendary establishment in the Bridgeport neighborhood. Bridgeport, home to Mayor Richard J. Daley was known as one of the most brutally…

Uncle Al holds up his niece at Sam Binion’s house on the 7200 block of S. Ellis.

Kokomo, a stripper, performs at a bachelor party on Chicago’s S. Side.

Fans of Yung Jock scream and tossle for attention for the well known rapper as he rode by on the WGCI Radio Station's float in the annual Bud Billiken Parade in 2006. What began as the wish of Chicago Defender's founder Robert S. Abbott to organize…

View looking Northwest from 73rd St. in the South Shore neighborhood. The South Shore neighborhood was one of the wealthier and more prosperous neighborhoods that at one time had a thriving Jewish population. By the early 1980's it was almost…

Willie Jones Sr. was born in Shably, Mississippi and moved to the neighborhood in the late 1950's. He was an institution in the Pockettown neighborhood. He worked at R.R. Donnelly for 25 years until his retirement in 1988. He was remembered for many…

Friends and relatives hug after coming out Starkeshia Reed's household in March 2006. Fourteen year old Starkeshia Reed was shot in her living room as she was preparing to go to school in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. She was…

Reggie and his crew hanging out on a car on 72nd St. Chicago's South Side has numerous gangs and the Pocket, a six block square neighborhood there are three rival gangs that battle each other for turf and supremacy. Most of the members know each…