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Yuleander Seals, “YOLO 150” as he was known, was a City worker who died while performing his duties; he was hit by a service vehicle.
Ward: 3
Alderman: Dowell
Neighborhood: Washington Park
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Timuel Black was a black historian, professor, Civil Rights activist who lived on the South Side of Chicago and lived to be 102 years old.
His family moved to Chicago from Birmingham, Alabama when he was a year old; they were fleeing racial segregation and seeking better education for their children.
Timuel Black helped organize more than 2,500 Chicagoans to attend the Martin Luther King March on Washington. He also worked on the campaign that elected Chicago’s first black Mayor, Harold Washington.
As a soldier in WWII, he was moved by the atrocities he saw in Europe as a result of the Nazi regime; he dedicated his life to civil rights.
He was on the faculty at City Colleges of Chicago
Timuel Black is the author of several books, including: Bridges of Memory (two volumes) and Sacred Ground
University of Chicago
Roosevelt University
DuSable High School
Wendell Phillips High School
Englewood High School
Burke Elementary
Photo Credit: CC0 Timuel Black
Ward: 3
Alderman: Dowell
Neighborhood: Bronzeville
b. December 7, 1918. Birmingham, Alabama
d. October 13, 2021. Age 102. Chicago
Leon Lederman was a Nobel Prize winning Physicist, for his team discovery of the Muon Neutrino. In 1979 he became the Director of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab and built the Tevatron, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. He was a professor at the University of Chicago and at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a board member of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, and the Illinois Math and Science Academy
Alumni
Columbia University, PhD Physics
City College of New York, Chemistry
Nobel Prize 1988
Veteran: U.S. Army, WWII, 2nd Lieutenant, Signal Corp
Ward: 3
Alderman: Dowell
Neighborhood: IIT
b. July 15, 1922. New York City
d. October 3, 2018. Age 96. Idaho
Near
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
