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• Tucked away in rural Illinois: Site of America’s first town founded by a free Black man

  Feb 12, 2021 10:45 am by Chicago TribuneIllinois in the News
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  Chicago Tribune (Opinion; Feb. 12) A great-great-grandson of town founder Free Frank McWorter, now a retired Illinois professor, said he wonders: How many Black people are part of the national story?

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