Jimmy HerdegeninSeparate but EqualPilsen’s Community Activism and Struggle with Displacement“We know the history of what development means in the city of Chicago. For us, urban renewal has meant urban removal. But we intend to…Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
Jimmy HerdegeninSeparate but EqualOak Park: The Fight for Integration“A racially-balanced school system is therefore a necessary if not sufficient prerequisite if residential segregation is to be avoided”Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020
Jimmy HerdegeninSeparate but EqualGarfield Park and Lincoln Park: A Story of How Race Shaped Two Communities and Their Commercial…“I hope that rents will not price out the diversity of the neighborhood. I don’t think it’s so much fun when everyone’s the same…You might…Jun 20, 20201Jun 20, 20201
Jimmy HerdegenFinal Thoughts“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”Aug 8, 20191Aug 8, 20191
Jimmy HerdegenForming the River Towns of Monroe County“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”Aug 1, 2019Aug 1, 2019
Jimmy HerdegenThe Hope of Ormet“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.”Jul 26, 2019Jul 26, 2019
Jimmy HerdegenThe History of Migration in Monroe County and Appalachia“I am worried about my children moving to the city because I hear every day of children being destroyed, being drowned, run over by cars…Jul 18, 2019Jul 18, 2019
Jimmy HerdegenThe Oil & Gas Boom in Monroe County“Years may come and years may go, Republics may rise and fall, But the God on High will notice, As He looks over all, That the men who get…Jul 11, 2019Jul 11, 2019
Jimmy HerdegenThe Lives of Ormet Workers“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Jimmy HerdegenClarington’s Hidden Treasure“It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for.”Jun 25, 2019Jun 25, 2019
