Chicago, Illinois in Light in August (Location)

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Chicago, Illinois
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2396
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865
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Chicago, Illinois, is one of Joe Christmas's stopovers during the fifteen years he spends wandering around the country. Presumably it is one of the places, along with Detroit, where "he lives with negroes, shunning white people" (225); Chicago was one of the cities that many southern African Americans moved to during the Great Migration, which took place 1910-1930.

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Only Mentioned in Text
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Continuous
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City; Negro District

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