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[berwyn senator]

I think it was 19Th south on the west side of Lombard 2ND. fl. a family moved in and were chased out.This happened around 1949 or 1950 not sure.

[markberwyn]

Why would good-old-days Berwynites chase out a family?

[berwyn senator]

Who knows? From what I understand the majority of the people were not from Berwyn,Cicero was across the street.

[markberwyn]

Fine, let's say it was the Great Berwyn-Cicero Race Riot of 1949 or Maybe 1950. What's your understanding of what happened?

[markberwyn]

Ah, never mind. Here's the story of the good old days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero_race_riot_of_1951

More from this article, which more "good old days" Berwynites should read:

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

In 1951, thousands of whites in Cicero, 20 minutes or so west of downtown Chicago, attacked an apartment building that housed a single black family, throwing bricks and firebombs through the windows and setting the apartment on fire. A Cook County grand jury declined to charge the rioters—and instead indicted the family's NAACP attorney, the apartment's white owner, and the owner's attorney and rental agent, charging them with conspiring to lower property values.

And more here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/the-american-case-against-a-black-middle-class/267385/

When a black family in Chicago saves up enough to move out of the crowded slums into Cicero, the neighborhood riots. The father had saved for years for a piano for his kids. The people of Cicero tossed the piano out the window, looted his home, torched his apartment and then torched his building.

[berwynson]

Fine, let's say it was the Great Berwyn-Cicero Race Riot of 1949 or Maybe 1950. What's your understanding of what happened?

See Reminisce, page 7 of 9, I started a thread on this March 12, 2011. I'd rather not re-write the whole thing. Look it over, ask questions, if you like.   berwynson

[berwyn senator]

I didn't remember all,thanks Berwynson.Let me ask you go under Markberwyn yet your criticism of Berwyn is constant.I'll bet you never spent much time in Berwyn?

[markberwyn]

I don't know how you'd define "much time," but I grew up in Lyons and spent plenty of time in Berwyn with friends and relatives then, including attending Morton West. And I was a homeowner there for a while as a grownup, and have friends and family who still live out there. I think the town has a lot of good aspects, which is why I'm not a big fan of Ronnie Lottz and his apologists embarrassing the town globally. But I also don't see the virtue in pretending that everything about the past was wonderful and that it's all gone pear-shaped today.

[berwyn senator]

I must agree the mirror is stupid,but Berwyn was a more quite town years back compared to Cicero and even Lyons.

[markberwyn]

The Berwyn types covered their asses better. For a while.

[berwyn senator]

Berwyn asses were to big to cover.

[berwyn senator]

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