CHICAGO, Ill. — The home of slain Black teenager Emmett Till has been granted landmark status in Chicago. The Chicago City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday that protects the house on the South ...

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The West Woodlawn home where Emmett Till lived with his mother and extended family before being brutally murdered 70 years ago is in the process of becoming not only a museum but also a memorial.

The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History unveiled the .45-caliber ...

Germane Barnes installation at the Till family home on Chicago’s South Side (Nina Johnson) The July 25 announcement stated that two sites in Mississippi will be designated as national monuments: ...

CHICAGO — On Tuesday of this coming week, Emmett Till would have turned 82 years old. In honor of his birthday, there will be a groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of renovations at the museum ...

For a second year, Woodlawn residents celebrated Emmett Till’s birthday on Sunday with an ice cream social outside Till’s childhood home on Saint Lawrence Street. But this year’s party was special ...