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Dempsey Travis, on housing, Harold Washington and more
by YoChicago1 1,449 views
Travis talks about his best friend, former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, about housing opportunities in Chatham, and more.
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Dempsey Travis, philanthropy and early influences
by YoChicago1 555 views
Eighty-seven year old Dempsey Travis is an extraordinary man who's led an extraordinary life. In this part of our interview, he htalks about some of his philanthropic activities, and about his early days.
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Dempsey Travis, on Chatham and racial segregation in Chicago
by YoChicago1 1,735 views
Eighty-seven year old real estate developer Dempsey Travis talks about racism, housing segregation in Chicago, and the Chatham neighborhood he's lived in for the past 40 years.
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Dempsey Travis, on Chatham, Washington Park and the Olympics
by YoChicago1 720 views
Legendary Chicago entrepreneur and author Dempsey J. Travis talks about his home neighborhood of Chatham, some of the nearby neighborhoods, and the impact the 2016 Olympics would have on Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood.
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Dempsey Travis, Chatham Park Place, Chicago
by YoChicago1 1,782 views
Meet 87-year old real estate developer, author, musician (and so much more) Dempsey Travis, at his home in Chatham Park Place. The final phase of this development will be underway soon.
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A bit of Burnside, Chicago
by YoChicago1 2,428 views
A few scenes from one of Chicago's south side neighborhoods - ranging from the solidly middle-class to the solidly seedy.
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Chatham Village Square, Chicago
by YoChicago1 3,455 views
A walk around this successful new shopping center, anchored by Target, at the northwest corner of East 87th St and South Cottage Grove Ave.
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A drive through Chicago's Pill Hill
by YoChicago1 6,676 views
Pill Hill resident Fallon Russell guides YoChicago on a drive through this affluent, largely African-American neighborhood. She talks about life in Pill Hill, and the areas that adjoin it.
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Chatham Food Center, a Chicago neighborhood institution
by YoChicago1 2,512 views
Join us for a brief walk through one of the fewer than two dozen African-American owned supermarkets in the entire United States, and meet its owner, Leonard Harris.
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Celebrating the life of Vernie Joseph French, Sr
by YoChicago1 770 views
Vernie Joseph French, Sr, was an extraordinary man who died recently at age 85.
We were at St Clotilde Church, in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, the morning of his funeral.
His life is so representative of so many of Chatham's extraordinary residents that we thought it proper to read from his obituary while showing a walk-through of St Clotilde. -
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A drive through Park Manor, Chicago
by YoChicago1 5,242 views
Park Manor is a sub-neighborhood of Grand Crossing (a/k/a Greater Grand Crossing).
Its boundaries are 79th St to 67th St (Marquette Rd), from Cottage Grove Ave (800 E) west to the Dan Ryan Expy, in ZIP codes 60619 and 60637.
Some people consider the southern four blocks of Park Manor to be part of Chatham, its neighbor to the south.
Our drive starts at the southwest corner of the neighborhood and wends east and north. -
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A drive through Chatham and West Chesterfield, Chicago
by YoChicago1 2,892 views
YoChicago takes a leisurely drive through these stable, middle-class, predominantly African-American neighborhoods on Chicago's south side.
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South Chicago, 87th St Chamber of Commerce
by YoChicago1 1,675 views
Fallon Russell, program director at the Chamber, talks about her neighborhood with YoChicago's Joe Zekas
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Real Estate Curmudgeon - treating your skin disease
by YoChicago1 569 views
A 4 bedroom, 2 bath bungalow in Chicago's south-side Chatham neighborhood costs about $225K, but the same property in Belmont Heights on the northwest side goes for $350-$400K.
What's the difference? The Curmudgeon says it's nothing but the skin color of your neighbors, and suggests that's a "skin disease" that costs $800 to $1,100 a month to treat.
