By Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor | Chicago Defender Friday night was a night of music and magic at the Kennedy-King College Building U Theater. The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep Marching Band, better known as the Soul Train of Chicago, performed alongside master illusionist Walter King Jr., better known as The SpellBinder. The
Tacuma Roeback, Managing Editor | Chicago Defender Chicago police have launched an arson investigation into a blaze that occurred at the historic Swift mansion in Bronzeville. City firefighters responded to a fire at the three-story, 131-year-old building at 4500 S. Michigan Ave. on Sunday morning. Firefighters were able to put out the blaze within a
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