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In his first full year of teaching, Prietz, then 23, remembers increasingly hearing the wailing of sirens and seeing plumes of smoke from the building at 13th Place and Homan Avenue.  

About four years after the riots, Givens’ family moved about a mile southwest to 15th Street and Lawndale Avenue. Givens went on to work for an automotive financing company and relocated to Milwaukee. There...

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She took the “L” to 63rd Street and University Avenue, and as soon as she exited the train, she could hear glass shattering, people shouting...

...behind, teachers devised a plan to form a car convoy to the Sears warehouse at Homan Avenue and Arthington Street, which had its own police detail. The teachers appointed an African-American teacher to lead...

...Sicily, was attacked and beaten by rioters at his tailor shop at the corner of Mohawk Street and North Avenue. (Family photo...

The couple made it to the Austin Boulevard stop and headed to the Topper’s Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge in the 300 block of North Austin Boulevard for a drink to calm their nerves.

Chicago police officers, Eigel said, had pulled up to a clothing store near Madison and Pulaski and backed their squad cars up to the shop's rear. They then loaded their trucks with as much as they could haul out, he said.

When he finished his shift, Pirjevec returned to the Fillmore District police station at 4001 W. Fillmore St., which was a half block away from a nearby viaduct and train tracks. The area was nearly pitch black, Pirjevec remembered, save for the glow of one street light.

He opened the front door of the three-story apartment building near Troy Street and 13th Street, and saw people running through the streets shouting in anguish.

RAGE, RIOTS, RUIN
When a bullet felled Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., the death of the civil rights leader reverberated across the country. Five hundred miles away in Chicago, King's assassination blindsided black communities he had fought for.
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