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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

DuSable aiming for ‘somewhere better and different’

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, on 56th Place in Washington Park, was begun in 1961 and has struggled with funding and administration issues. Its director hopes to make it into a cultural force in Chicago. (Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times)

A recent Saturday morning found me standing in front of the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Washington Park, waiting for a man who, due to a miscommunication, was at that moment waiting in North Lawndale.

A quick phone call sorted the confusion out, and rather than race across town, we postponed. The remainder of my morning suddenly freed just as the museum’s revolving door was being unbolted. I sensed an opportunity.

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