New grants have been made available to offer pandemic assistance to small businesses operated by people of color on Chicago’s West Side. The Support West program will provide $5,000 in relief to businesses who apply before the deadlines close on February 28th.
This year, celebrate Black History Month by taking a virtual tour of its founding location, a YMCA in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Tours of this historical Chicago landmark are being organized by The Renaissance Collaborative, a Bronzeville social impact organization through their Living Landmark Friendraiser.
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Chicago is Black American History.
In the city’s early days, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, an African and French settler, started trading here in the 1780s. Historians now credit Du Sable with founding the city as well as fugitive slaves and freemen for developing the city’s first Black community.
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The Greater Chicago Food Depository has been operating in the Chicago community for the past 42 years. In their long history they have never seen an increased need for food like they did when COVID-19 hit; this kicked them into overdrive.
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