The beam-raising ceremony in front of the South Side Community Art Center's landmarked brick mansion in Bronzeville — the new addition's steel frame rising at the left, with the crowd gathered on Michigan Avenue

Steel is up in Bronzeville: the nation's oldest Black art center is doubling in size

Bronzeville's crown jewel just hit its construction milestone. The South Side Community Art Center — founded in 1940 under the Works Progress Administration, with Dr. Margaret Burroughs among its…

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