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Great, dense (lots of names) but cool perspective on the forces that shaped Chicago mid-1940s to 1960s.

Very dense content

So many names, I'll need jot them down along the way for further research

This deep dive lover letter to Chicago

My current audiobook during my commute

More than anything Chicago yearned…

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“There’s something incomplete about this city and its people, and it fascinates me. It seems to urge one on to completion. Everything, here still seems possible.

I love the air of newness, of expectation around me.
Yes, I want to stay.”
László Moholy-Nagy

These from previous days’ reads! I can’t find most recent notes?

Loved to live there one day?

"The illiterate of the Future will be the man who doesn’t understand photography,” Walter Benjamin - Moholy - in his 1931 Essay “A Short History of Photography”
&
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Charles Morris' Letter of Intro to John Dewey - Progressivism Philosopher - with driving sense to: Experience, Experiment and Connections to Jane Addams [Hull House 1889] in her Academic Theory with Social Reform collaborating movements.

So much I’m learning about Chicago. Elizabeth Wood ~ Japanese American
who actually brought Pride to the Projects; gentrifying them for those who needed them the most.
She provided clean and safe homes with playgrounds and clinics on each property. - “Fear of tenants becoming snobbish.”
and
Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1944 “A Street in Brownsville” ~ “…challenging Langston Hughes as Premier Black Poet.”

Young Radicals
Artist Margaret Taylor ~ equal parts, Nina Simone and Frieda Kahlo, befriends Gwendolyn Brooks.

Mahalia’s Median Music:
The OG MJ epitomizes the marriage between South despair and desire with the new Dorsey sound.

Wildcard Wright:
RW’s biggest WIN; “Native Son”, ON HIS OWN, without the help of any of the handful of organizations usually associated with Black Artwork seeing the light of day.

This audiobook is fucking long oh my gawd

“Chicago is the city from where the most incisive and radical Negro Thought has come. There is an open and raw beauty about that city that seems to kill or endow one with the spirit of life.” - Hughes

Architect Mies
and
Brooks’, “In the Mecca, we’re murder, loves, lonelinesses, hates, jealousies, hope occurred and charity, sainthood, glory, shame, despair, fear, altruism, theft, material, and moral.”

My fascination with all things Chicago, this book has valuable insights to a city I’d love to live in for a few years. I’d have already been there had it not been so friggin COLD six months of the year!