Dig deeper into the real life history of the Young Lords, featured in this year's One Book, One Chicago selection, Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, by taking a self-guided walking tour of Lincoln Park.
Through photos, oral history, music, and dance, the National Public Housing Museum and Blu Rhythm Collective are proud to present Stories from the Redline: Fire Fire Gentrifier, a self-guided tour of a people's history of Lincoln Park.
What can we learn from the past? How can we build a better collective future for all of us? This tour excavates the hidden and repressed history of urban renewal and explores the struggles of the Young Lords to organize, raise political awareness, and resist gentrification. Listen and look more intentionally at the existing urban landscape, reflect on how it’s changed, and witness the exuberance of young people, who, with collective joy, are organizing and reclaiming Chicago neighborhood history today.
What to expect:
- Visit the tour website to follow the tour at your leisure.
- The .75-mile tour begins at the DePaul School of Music at 804 W. Belden Street and ends at Lincoln Park High School at 2001 N. Orchard Street.
- The tour takes approximately thirty minutes to complete and is wheelchair accessible.
- There are three destination stops on this tour, with intermediary travel points along the way.
- Transcripts of all audio are available.