Chicago history is black history—the city was founded by a black man, after all, and we have a regional library named for the father of what has become Black History Month—so it’s no surprise that we go big in February, with events nearly every day.
All year: The opening event is sold out, but more programming is planned throughout 2019 about race and journalism, segregation and public education, literature, and more. For more information and a full list of events, visit chicago1919.org.
Chicago Park District
All year: “All Power to the People,” an exhibit on the legacy of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, runs February 16 through December 31 at Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, 9525 S. Halsted, in the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection gallery.
The former homes of Ida B. Wells and Gwendolyn Brooks are just two of the 33 locations detailed in the guidebook Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women on Chicago’s South Side by Mariame Kaba and Essence McDowell.
