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This monument was built in 1928 to honor the service of the African-American Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard in France during World War I..
This monument was built in 1928 to honor the service of the African-American Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard in France during World War I.
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35th St and Martin Luther King Jr Dr
Built to house the first African-American insurance company, which was one of the few Black Metropolis businesses to survive the Great Depression
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A community arts center open since 1940, which was for long the only place around where minority artists could exhibit there work
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