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Austin
Humboldt Park
Belmont Craigin
Roseland
Uptown
100
This business man and real estate speculator created the 280 acre outline of the Austin Community
Who is Henry W. Austin?
100
This famous baseball player named, also the namesake of a popular high school in Humboldt Park died in an aviation accident on December 31, 1972, while en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
100
This organization is a HUD-Certified, community-based, nonprofit organization that engages, educates and empowers the community to improve housing for all.
What is the Northwest Side Housing Center
100
The community of Roseland received its name from these, that graced homes, lawns, and parks in the area during its founding by Dutch settlers in the 1840s.
What are Rosebushes?
100
This organization began in 1968 as a protest against the displacement of 500 families.
What is Voice of the People Uptown?
200
This group of migrants built the Byzantine-style Assumption Church still standing today on 655 S. Central Avenue
What are Greek migrants
200
Paseo Boricua boasts these two huge steel cultural markers as identifiers of its strong Puerto Rican heritage
What are the Puerto Rican flags?
200
An HBO movie released in 2000 that chronicles the story of the 1994–1995 Steinmetz High School team that cheated in the United States Academic Decathlon (USAD).
What is Cheaters?
200
This organization was started by a grandmother inviting youth into her home to provide a holistic care center for prevention, growth and empowerment KOB truly bridges the gap, by providing a safe place off the block.
What is Kids Off The Block?
200
Uptown community is home to the oldest urban Native American center in the United States. It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunities for Native American peoples
What is the American Indian Center?
300
This State Representative, whose headquarters are located in the Austin Community was recently indicted on federal bank fraud charges.
Who is LaShawn K. Ford?
300
For 120 years, this organization's mission has been to partner with individuals, families, and communities to overcome poverty, discrimination, and isolation.
What is Chicago Commons?
300
By the year 2000, these ethnic populations make up the majority of the Belmont Cragin neighborhood?
What are Polish, Latino.
300
This museum is named after the person organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union.
What is the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
300
This historic and popular music venue has hosted numerous big name groups including performed, including The Rolling Stones, U2, The Doors, Snoop Dogg, Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins, Dr. John, B.B. King, Metallica, Nirvana, The Ramones and many others.
What is the Aragon Ballroom?
400
At roughly 2-million square feet, this old candy company building covers 32 acres and includes smaller buildings along with the seven-story factory. In 2007, an office building on the site was blown up for a scene in 2008's The Dark Knight movie.
What is the Brach's Candy Factory?
400
Originally, this celebration commemorated El Día de San Juan (St. John's Day), an event organized by Los Caballeros de San Juan (the Knights of St. John), one of the first Puerto Rican religious and social organizations in Chicago.
What is the Puerto Rican Day Parade?
400
This American toy company based in Belmont Cragin also produces scooters, tricycles, bicycles, play horses, and ride-ons. The company was founded in 1917 and is based in Chicago, Illinois
What is Radio Flyer?
400
This history making political figure got their start as a community organizer in the Roseland community.
Who is President Barack Obama?
400
In 1975 this Young Lords founder joined with a broad coalition of whites, blacks and Latinos and ran unsuccessfully against Daley-sponsored Christopher Cohen.
Who is Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez
500
This crusading newspaper won the Ethics In Journalism Award from the Chicago Headline Club for exposing chronic corruption in the 15th police district resulting in the conviction of officers known as the Austin 7, built a reputation since its founding in 1985 battling drug dealers and violent street gangs in the face of police and political indifference on Chicago’s tough West Side.
What is The Austin Voice Newspaper
500
This key moment in the history of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, drew attention to poverty and to strained relations between Puerto Ricans and Chicago's police department.
What are the Division Street Riots on June 12, 1966?
500
George Merrill opened this type of business, also recognized as the first business in the Belmont Cragin area.
What is a saloon?
500
The dutch settlers commonly referred to the community as this, because it was built on higher, drier ground than the earlier Dutch settlement several miles further south of the Little Calumet River
What is de Hooge Prairie", the High Prairie?
500
During this decade an influx of white Americans from Appalachia, Japanese Americans from California, and Native Americans from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Oklahoma settled in Uptown's affordable but deteriorating housing.
What is the 1950's?