In the winter of 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago to advocate for fair housing and to protest Chicago's segregated school system, moving his family into a small two-flat at 16th and Hamlin in North Lawndale. That building was later demolished, and for 30 years the lot was vacant. Now, Lee Bey reports that a coalition of housing orgs have teamed up to build the Dr. King Legacy Apartments, a 45-unit new-construction building designed by Johnson & Lee Architects on that site. [WBEZ]
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