Notes

 

1. 1 X names of the Native signees: To-pen-e-bee, his x mark; Sau-ko-noek, his x mark; Che-che-bin-quay, his x mark; Joseph, his x mark; Wah-mix-i-co, his x mark; Ob-wa-qua-unk, his x mark; N-saw-way-quet, his x mark; Puk-quech-a-min-nee, his x mark; Nah-che-wine, his x mark; Ke-wase, his x mark; Wah-bou-seh, his x mark; Mang-e-sett, his x mark; Caw-we-saut, his x mark; Ah-be-te-ke-zhic, his x mark; Pat-e-go-shuc, his x mark; E-to-wow-cote, his x mark; Shim-e-nah, his x mark; O-chee-pwaise, his x mark; Ce-nah-ge-win, his x mark; Shaw-waw-nas-see, his x mark; Shab-eh-nay, his x mark; Mac-a-ta-o-shic, his x mark; Squah-ke-zic, his x mark; Mah-che-o-tah-way, his x mark; Cha-ke-te-ah, his x mark; Me-am-ese, his x mark, Shay-tee, his x mark; Kee-new, his x mark; Ne-bay-noc-scum, his x mark; Naw-bay-caw, his x mark; O’Kee-mase, his x mark; Saw-o-tup, his x mark; Me-tai-way, his x mark; Na-ma-ta-way-shuc, his x mark; Shaw-waw-nuk-wuk, his x mark; Nah-che-wah, his x mark; Sho-bon-nier, his x mark; Me-nuk-quet, his x mark; Chis-in-ke-bah, his x mark; Mix-e-maung, his x mark; Nah-bwait, his x mark; Sen-e-bau-um, his x mark; Puk-won, his x mark; Wa-be-no-say, his x mark; Mon-tou-ish, his x mark; No-nee, his x mark; Mas-quat, his x mark; Sho-min, his x mark; Ah-take, his x mark; He-me-nah-wah, his x mark; Che-pec-co-quah, his x mark; Mis-quab-o-no-quah, his x mark; Wah-be-Kai, his x mark; Ma-ca-ta-ke-shic, his x mark; Sho-min, his x mark; She-mah-gah, his x mark; O’ke-mah-wah-ba-see, his x mark; Na-mash, his x mark; Shab-y-a-tuk, his x mark; Ah-cah-o-mah, his x mark; Quah-quah, tah, his x mark; Ah-sag-a-mish-cum, his x mark; Pa-mob-a-mee, his x mark; Nay-o-say, his x mark; Ce-tah-quah, his x mark; Ce-ku-tay, his x mark; Sauk-ee, his x mark; Ah-quee-wee, his x mark; Ta-cau-ko, his x mark; Me-shim-e-nah, his x mark; Wah-sus-kuk, his x mark; Pe-nay-o-cat, his x mark; Paymaw-suc, his x mark; Pe-she-ka, his x mark; Shaw-we-mon-e-tay, his x mark; Ah-be-nab, his x mark; Sau-sau-quas-see, his x mark.
2. 2 Opening of the Union Stockyard.
3. 3 The last writings of Albert Parsons, published in the Alarm, November 5, 1887, a week before his execution.
4. 4 Italics are phrases from Debs’s speech upon his release from prison November 23, 1895, quoted in the Chicago Chronicle & Karl Marx’s Capital.
5. 5 A section of German criminal code that made homosexuality a crime from 1871 to 1994.
6. 6 Founder of the political Latino street organization the Young Lords.
7. 7 Division Street: America is published.
8. 8 A line from Haki Madhubuti’s poem “The Wall.”
9. 9 A line from Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Wall.”
10. 10 “The Hawk” refers to Chicago’s cold wind. Used in the Chicago Defender, October 20, 1936, and famously in Lou Rawls’s 1967 Dead End Street.
11. 11 Language removed from the cityofchicago.org website.
12. 12 The demolition of Cabrini Green housing begins.
13. 13 Housing and Urban Development begins and ends demolition of the Ida B. Wells Homes in Bronzeville.
14. 14 City Council passes a rave ordinance, a stricter enforcement of the juice-bar ordinance of April 1, 1987.
15. 15 City Council passes an ordinance marking “dangerous buildings” with red Xs in order to warn first responders about “structural conditions” in “buildings that could create danger for crews responding to fires. These conditions include weak truss or other roofing systems, missing mortar, rotted or damaged timbers.”
16. 16 Big Bill Haywood was a socialist and one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, started in Chicago in 1904.
17. 17 The day after a Florida jury finds the murderer of Trayvon Martin not guilty.
18. 18 Eight-two people were shot this weekend. Fourteen of them died.
19. 19 Isaiah 57:21.