With a garland of white flowers in front of him, a lone rower kneeling in a wooden canoe glided toward the DuSable Bridge docks. After stilling his vessel, two men on the Riverwalk helped him hoist ...
The ceremony was meant to symbolize how DuSable, a Black man likely from the Caribbean who founded the settlement that would become Chicago, might have first arrived in the area, according to Rilck ...