This adventure, based on the Chicago History Museum exhibition, "Remembering Dr. King: 1929–1968," invites you to explore some of the locations Dr. King frequented in Chicago.

Chicago History Museum

A Baptist minister and champion of nonviolent activism, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential figures of the civil rights movement. He spent considerable time in Chicago protesting racial discrimination, particularly in housing and education.
This VAMONDE adventure is based on the Chicago History Museum exhibition, "Remembering Dr. King: 1929-1968," and invites you to explore in person some of the locations King frequented in the city and to consider how Dr. King’s work remains relevant today, 50 years after his assassination.

Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago

To bring attention to the poor housing conditions in Chicago’s African American enclaves, King moved his family into an apartment in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood. Located at 1550 South Hamlin Avenue, the rent was $90 per month, expensive for the time,​ but the building lacked a secure front door, and the lobby had a dirt floor.

The neighborhood had experienced a complete racial transformation in the previous ten years, from 87 percent white in 1950 to 90 percent black in 1960. The change led to disinvestment in the community: jobs disappeared, businesses closed or began stocking inferior products, and landlords neglected their property. In his autobiography, Dr. King wrote, “Chicago was not alone among cities with a slum problem, but certainly we knew that slum conditions there were the prototype of those chiefly responsible for the Northern urban race problem.”

1550 South Hamlin Avenue

Gifted to the University of Chicago by its founder John D. Rockefeller, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel was completed in 1928 and serves as a place for dignitaries from around the world to come and address the university and the city. Dr. King spoke from the pulpit of this church on two occasions. His first appearance took place in April 1956, during the height of the Montgomery bus boycott. 

The 381-day effort began with Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat for a white man and resulted in the desegregation of the city’s public transportation system. King spoke to a captive audience of more than 1,500 on “The Declaration of Independence and the Negro,” sharing his belief in the power of nonviolence to bring about social change: “We must use as our weapons, the love which transcends everything and can make you compassionate with those who hate you,” he said, according to contemporary reports.

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Mahalia Jackson was one of Chicago’s most famous residents. Jackson, a contralto, was known as the Queen of Gospel, selling millions of records and performing in venues worldwide. As one of the premiere gospel artists in the world, she graciously offered her remarkable voice to the leadership of the civil rights movement, often performing benefit concerts and donating the proceeds to various civil rights organizations. 

She was also a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and his favorite gospel singer. When he was in Chicago, Dr. King was often a guest at her home, and Jackson frequently provided musical accompaniment at his various speaking engagements, including singing “I Been ‘Buked and I Been Scorned” at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. The two remained friends until the end of King’s life, with Jackson performing Chicagoan Thomas Dorsey’s “Take My Hand, Precious Lord,” at Dr. King’s funeral in 1968.

Mahalia Jackson’s home

Dr. King spoke at Shiloh Baptist Church, located on South May Street at that time. Here, he delivered one of his more famous sermons, “A Knock at Midnight,” based on the Biblical parable in Luke 11:5–13. In the sermon, King proclaimed that it was “midnight,” or a time of deep darkness, for America’s social and moral order. Yet, despite this darkness, Dr. King used the story to encourage his audience to keep knocking—and by extension, keep working—for a new day of justice and equality in the United States. 

Shiloh Baptist Church

On August 5, 1966, Dr. King led a march through Marquette Park, an all-white neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side. He and other activists recognized that discriminatory real estate and rental practices operating in places like Marquette Park allowed realtors and landlords to prohibit African Americans from moving in. Open-housing proponents wanted local and federal officials to aggressively enforce laws requiring that housing be made available without regard to race. 

"I’ve been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I have never seen—even in Mississippi and Alabama—mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I've seen here in Chicago."

– Martin Luther King Jr. 

When marchers arrived in Marquette Park, they were met by 700 counterprotestors, who threw rocks and bricks and ultimately crossed a police line to attack the demonstrators. King, himself, was hit in the head with a rock. Afterward, he remarked, "I’ve been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I have never seen—even in Mississippi and Alabama—mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I've seen here in Chicago."

Marquette Park

Originally built by Romanian Jews as a synagogue for their congregation, this building was purchased by the African American congregation of Stone Temple Baptist Church in 1954. The Ten Commandments in Hebrew at the apex of the roof speak to the church’s origins as the First Romanian Congregation Synagogue.

Dr. King spoke here frequently, due in no small part to the long-standing friendship between his father, the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr., and the church’s founder, the Reverend J. M. Stone. When the Chicago Freedom Movement began in earnest, the church served as a key organizing hub. To commemorate Stone Temple’s role in the civil rights movement, the church was declared a city landmark in 2016 and has kept the podium from which MLK spoke in the sanctuary.

Stone Temple Baptist Church

In 1962, Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) established Operation Breadbasket to demand that businesses located in African American neighborhoods hire members of those communities as employees. When the SCLC launched the Chicago Freedom Movement in 1966, King established a branch here, and its original headquarters was located at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, on a street that now bears King’s name (in 1966, it was South Parkway). 

King selected a young Chicago Theological Seminary student named Jesse Jackson to lead Operation Breadbasket and later remarked that the effort had become “spectacularly successful,” opening up two thousand new jobs to African Americans in Chicago in less than eighteen months.

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church

The Chicago Freedom Movement rally took place on July 10, 1966, at Soldier Field, attracting more than 30,000 attendees. The city was in the midst of a heatwave, and there were concerns that this coupled with the volatile political climate would lead to violence. Despite the worry, the crowd assembled peacefully to listen to Dr. King speak on the institutionalized discrimination taking place in Chicago. He remarked, “This day we must declare our own Emancipation Proclamation. This day we must commit ourselves to make any sacrifice necessary to change Chicago. This day we must decide to fill up the jails of Chicago, if necessary, in order to end slums.” 

Two years prior, King spoke at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights, also held at Soldier Field. Addressing a crowd of nearly 60,000 shortly before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, King urged attendees to remain vigilant in seeking justice despite the impending legislative victory. 

Soldier Field

After the 1966 rally at Soldier Field, Dr. King led a march to city hall to post the demands of the Chicago Freedom Movement on its door, an act reminiscent of Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther nailing the "Ninety-five Theses" to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517.

City hall was the base of Mayor Richard J. Daley, who had been in office since 1955 and ran Chicago like a machine. Daley was politically astute enough not to play the openly racist foil to King’s moral leader, often stating that he agreed with King’s critiques of slum conditions and supported efforts to hold landlords accountable. Mayor Daley would meet with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders to show his support, while simultaneously dragging his feet on implementing and enforcing ordinances to create open housing or integrate the city’s public schools.

Below is the text of the demands King placed on the door of city hall:

REAL ESTATE BOARDS AND BROKERS

1.   Public statements that all listings will be available on a nondis­criminatory basis.

BANKS AND SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS

1.   Public statements of a nondiscriminatory mortgage policy so that loans will be available to any qualified borrower without regard to the racial composition of the area.

THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL

1.   Publication of headcounts of whites, Negroes and Latin Amer­icans for all city departments and for all firms from which city purchases are made.

2.   Revocation of contracts with firms that do not have a full scale fair employment practice.

3.   Creation of a citizens review board for grievances against police brutality and false arrests or stops and seizures.

4.   Ordinance giving ready access to the names of owners and investors for all slum properties.

5.   A saturation program of increased garbage collection, street cleaning, and building inspection services in the slum properties.

POLITICAL PARTIES

1.   The requirement that precinct captains be residents of their precincts.

CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE CHICAGO DWELLING ASSOCIATION

1.   Program to rehabilitate present public housing including such items as locked lobbies, restrooms in recreation areas, increased police protection and child care centers on every third floor.

2.   Program to increase vastly the supply of low-cost housing on a scattered basis for both low and middle income families.

BUSINESS

1.   Basic headcounts, including white, Negro and Latin American, by job classification and income level, made public.
2.   Racial steps to upgrade and to integrate all departments, all levels of employment.

UNIONS

1.   Headcounts in unions for apprentices, journeymen and union staff and officials by job classification. A crash program to remedy any inequities discovered by the headcount.

2.   Indenture of at least 400 Negro and Latin American appren­tices in the craft unions.

GOVERNOR

1.   Prepare legislative proposals for a $2.00 state minimum wage law and for credit reform, including the abolition of garnishment and wage assignment.

ILLINOIS PUBLIC AID COMMISSION AND THE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID

1.   Encouragement of grievance procedures for the welfare recip­ients so that recipients know that they can be members of and represented by a welfare union or a community organization.

2.   Institution of a declaration of income system to replace the degrading investigation and means test for welfare eligibility.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

1.   Executive enforcement of Title I of the 1964 Civil Rights Act regarding the complaint against the Chicago Board of Education.

2.   An executive order for Federal supervision of the nondiscrim­inatory granting of loans by banks and savings institutions that are members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

3.   Passage of the 1966 Civil Rights Act without any deletions or crippling amendments.

4.   Direct funding of Chicago community organizations by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

PEOPLE

1.   Financial support of the Freedom Movement.

2.  Selective buying campaigns against businesses that boycott the products of Negro-owned companies.

3.   Participation in the Freedom Movement target campaigns for this summer, including volunteer services and membership in one of the Freedom Movement Organizations.

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Bronzeville and Beyond

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Quintessential Old Town

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Lakeview Chamber of Commerce

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The Magnificent Mile

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The Magnificent Mile's Hidden Gems

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Chicago is a city built of neighborhoods and cultures and Chinatown is the prime example. Just south of Chicago's Loop, Chinatown is bustling with people, traditional cuisine, and of course culture. Hop on the Red Line, a bus, or even a water taxi and discover one of Chicago's most unique neighborhoods.

Chicago's Chinatown

Join Julia Bachrach, former Chicago Park District historian, on a journey through Humboldt Park to learn more about the role the 150-year-old park served as key experimental grounds for Jens Jensen's Prairie style of landscape architecture.

Julia Bachrach

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Humboldt Park: Jens Jensen’s Experimental Grounds

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Chicago Scene

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American Writers Museum

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Paul Natkin

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Chicago Park District

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Lakefront Gathering Spaces

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Chicago Historic Theatre District

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Jason Brammer

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City of Writers

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Indian Boundary Park

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Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago

1550 South Hamlin Avenue

1550 South Hamlin Avenue

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Mahalia Jackson’s home

Mahalia Jackson’s home

Shiloh Baptist Church

Shiloh Baptist Church

Marquette Park

Marquette Park

Stone Temple Baptist Church

Stone Temple Baptist Church

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church

Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church

Soldier Field

Soldier Field

Chicago City Hall

Chicago City Hall

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