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Food being served at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival on Armitage Avenue, August 23, 1969.

Unidentified Young Lords at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival on Armitage Avenue, August 23, 1969.

Volunteers cleaning, painting, and setting up the new childcare center at the People’s Church at 834 Armitage Ave.

Cha Cha Jimenez (in black) photographed at the People’s Church.

Overhead view of The Young Lords and the Black Panthers marching on Daley Center on April 12, 1970.

Protest sign that reads "Your taxes help kill! Resist!" during the Young Lords and Black Panthers' march on the Daley Center on April 12, 1970.

The Young Lords and the Black Panthers marching on Daley Center on April 12, 1970. The sign reads, "Today, the Panthers / Tomorrow, You / Stop oppression."

Young Lords painting murals and setting up furniture inside their community center at 834 Armitage Ave.

Fred Hampton, the leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, speaks to children during a free breakfast program at 1512 South Pulaski in the Cicero neighborhood of Chicago in April 1969.

A group of African American students demonstrate against the Board of Education in front of the Picasso sculpture where a few of them are wearing masks and hovering over a coffin with the “Board of Education” painted on it.

Looking through a shattered window to a group of police officers who were in front of the protesters, presumably outside the school.

Vandalized statue in Marshall Square which is located in front of the school.

A group of Latinx teens huddled together, laughing and smiling, with one student wearing a Harrison Hornets jacket.

Students of Austin High School on the West Side march toward the Loop to protest underfunding of mostly nonwhite schools, October 8, 1968.

Rudy Lozano at a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

A group of people attend a Center for Autonomous Social Action (CASA) meeting in 1975. Rudy Lozano is seated in the foreground.

Harrison students protest in the rain on October 10, 1968, nearly a month after protests began.

Protesters march in Pilsen in 1977. The sign in the foreground reads, "2 major fires in 8 days / Pilsen demands 1. Full investigation 2. Fire prevention program 3. More Latino fire fighters."

Protesters march in Pilsen in 1977. The sign in the foreground reads, "Why no Latino firemen in Pilsen."

Rudy Lozano (foreground) during a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

Rudy Lozano at a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

Fred Hampton, chairman of Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, November 5, 1969.

An artist’s depiction of residents inside Dunning, published in 1898 in the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper.

A poster of The Players' Club of the Chicago Hebrew Institute presenting two plays, one being the "Back of the Yards" by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.

Image of Pearl Hart

Chicago Gay Alliance flyer.

A photograph of the Alhambra Theatre in 1907

Image of Drs. Neely and Hanley vaccinating building department clerks against smallpox in a room in the County Building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Patients at the Chicago State Hospital walking outdoors on a snow-covered path, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1910. The Chicago State Hospital (also called the Dunning Mental Institute) was located at West Irving Park Road and North Narragansett…

View of the ruined stage of the Iroquois Theater, Chicago, Illinois, after the fire on December 30, 1903. Taken on January 4, 1904, the photographer was looking down from the balcony.