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Sidney Hurst Jr., scion of pioneering Black Oak Park family, dies at 97

Avatar photo by Michael Romain November 2, 2022November 2, 2022

There’s a long history of Blacks moving back and forth between Maywood and Oak Park — two suburbs with some of the richest Black communities in the state. Sidney Hurst Jr., scion of the first Black family to settle in Maywood (on his father’s side) and one of the first Black families to settle in […]

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