For many years Chicago, keeping to the tradition of its early history, had the reputation among colored people of according them fair treatment. Even now it is free from the outward signs of “segregation,” but unless the city realizes more fully than it does at present the great injustice which discrimination against any class of citizens entails, we shall suffer for our indifference by an ever increasing number of idle and criminal youth, which must eventually vitiate both the black and white citizenship of Chicago. PRESS OF ROGERS & HALL CO., CHICAGO TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Emboldened text is surrounded by equals signs: =bold=. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Alternate or archaic spelling that may have been in use at the time of publication has been retained. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Colored People of Chicago, by A. P. Drucker and Sophia Boaz and A. L. Harris and Miriam Schaffner