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It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region, and investigate,

report, explore, from WBEZ.

100 years ago this month,

Chicago was shaken to its core by racial violence.

Black people were chased in the streets and alleys by angry white mobs.

Groups of black teens attacked whites heading to or from work in the city's black belt.

And many black families

simply lock their doors and hid until the danger passed. In one week of this red summer of

1919, 38 people were killed, more than 500 were injured, and more than 1,000 were left homeless.

Obviously, anyone who lived through the Chicago

race riots was forever changed. But how did the riots change Chicago? That's the question we got

from Stephen Boone, who lives in the Southside neighborhood of Woodlawn. Stephen was particularly

interested in whether the riots contributed to a defining characteristic of Chicago,

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