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Frederick Ford, an executive with Draper & Kramer who was the first Black president of Chicago’s venerable Union League Club, ...
Filmmakers Erin Babbin and Michael Sullivan join to discuss "Beyond Closure," their new documentary examining how communities continue to fight for equity and identity more than a decade after Chicago ...
About 80 people gathered in Weill Hall in the Ford School of Public Policy to hear former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lightfoot spoke about her tenure as mayor and changes in her approach to public ...
Gail Wise didn’t know she was making history nearly 50 years ago. In 1964, the 22-year-old elementary school teacher knew that nothing in the Johnson Ford dealership on Cicero Avenue in Chicago ...
In the fall of 2017, not long after Derrianna Ford began her freshman year at Mather High School on Chicago's North Side, she was standing at her locker when an older student approached her.