Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago...
Negro Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, 28, whose Broadway hit, A Raisin in the Sun (TIME, March 23), was voted Broadway's best by Manhattan's drama critics, was trapped in an embarrassing predicament. Her play chronicles the many miseries and few joys of a poor Negro family in Chicago's ugly South Side slums. Last week the city of Chicago sued Lorraine and four others in her family for not correcting a long list of building-code violations (bad wiring, rats, falling plaster, etc.) in eight tenements owned by the Hansberrys. Location: the ugly South Side slums...
RENTED HOME APPLIANCES will be offered by Westinghouse to apartment-house owners in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It will not only rent refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, freezers, washers and dryers, but service them and replace them with new appliance models...
...RATE RAIL FARES will be offered by Chicago & North Western on its Chicago-Minneapolis-St. Paul run to compete with bus lines. New coach fares ($15.60 round trip) will equal bus fares, and meal costs will be limited...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family lives in a tenement that is rarely touched by the sun, but the glow of passion, humor, fear and stirring dreams lights up each character...