[jobim]

1968 - quite right. LadyL you were at Jackson & Kostner? I can vouch that you were indeed the last white family.

I grew up in Oak Park, but went to St. Ignatius HS. My dad's contracting building was 4511 W. Madison. We watched on TV as the rioters burned block after block on the west side, but despite destruction all around, his building survived.

This riot I believe was restricted to ghetto areas only, which is not to say that only Black businesses were destroyed, as many of the businesses and manufacturing plants were owned by white suburbanites. But that riot certainly prompted an exodus, us included.

[laplata]

Scary!

[TheRightGuy]

I remember ol’ man Daley’s orders to police: shoot to kill arsonists, shoot to maim or wound looters