One hundred years ago, 7-year-old Juanita Mitchell should have been playing with other children in the streets during that summer’s heat wave and getting to know her new home on Chicago’s South Side. She and her younger sister, Iona, had just moved with their mother into their uncle’s home near the corner of 35th Street … Continue reading ‘Ready to explode’: How a black teen’s drifting raft triggered a deadly week of riots 100 years ago in Chicago