The site has been dormant since it was destroyed in the 1968 riots following his assassination. He moved to Chicago in 1966 to fight for fair housing. "I'm sure that Cicero would be one of the ...
The Crosstown Expressway—akaI-494—was to have run west on 75 th Street, then northward along Cicero Avenue to the Kennedy Expressway. With 30,000 housing units slated for demolition, the Crosstown was ...