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# Chicago Defender Building · OpenVibe.Tours

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# Chicago Defender Building

Built in 1899 as a synagogue, this building housed the Chicago Defender (the nation's foremost African-American newspaper through World War I) from 1920-1960.

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## Why go

The Chicago Defender published works by Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, and is largely credited for starting the Great Migration in its exhortations to southern blacks to move to the North for greater economic opportunities and freedom. The building is oddly vacant and neglected and may be available for sale.

Source: [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chicago/Bronzeville)

## How to visit

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