This from the Chicago Suntimes:
Five years ago, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley turned a South Side firehouse where a racially-divisive retirement party took place into a museum honoring black firefighters.
Monday was Take Two for the City Council’s Committee on Housing and Real Estate.
Aldermen approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to turn Engine 61 — a vacant firehouse at 5349 S. Wabash built in 1929 — into the African-American Firefighter Museum.
The 10-year, $1 lease became necessary after Engine 100, 6843 S. Harper, turned out to be a turkey.
“The building was so old and there was so much work to be done….We were strapped trying to bring the place up to standard,” said museum founder Morris Davis.
Engine 61 will become the museum’s new home, complete with displays, photographs, artifacts and memorabilia honoring contributions made by black firefighters.
The entire article is HERE.
Thanks Bill
