Private First-Class Vincent A. Vega of Chicago was born on Sunday, August 2, 1931. At just 18 years old, he was declared Missing in Action after the July 5, 1950 Battle at Osan in South Korea; he made ...
Ehrenhalt explores an almost forgotton era, the 1950's by studying three Chicago-area communities: St. Nicholas of Tolentine parish on the southwest side, Bronzeville where most of Chicago's blacks ...