{"id":353478,"date":"2010-02-23T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/dusable-museum-founder-margaret-burroughs-honored"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:40:04","slug":"dusable-museum-founder-margaret-burroughs-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353478","title":{"rendered":"DuSable Museum founder Margaret Burroughs honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Craig Dellimore, Political Editor, reporting<br \/>\nCHICAGO (WBBM) &#8212; <\/strong>The Daley Administration is honoring historian Dr. Margaret Burroughs with an exhibit along the lakefront at 70th and South Shore Drive.<\/p>\n<p>\nMembers of the South Shore Opera Company serenaded the guest of honor as Mayor Richard M. Daley presided over the dedications of the Margaret Burroughs Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>\nChicago Park District Superintendent Timothy Mitchell says the gallery at the South Shore Cultural Center features the artwork of a woman who champions Black History and is\u2014-herself-\u2014a major part of it. <span id=\"more-21029\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nShe\u2019s best known for founding and running the DuSable Museum of African American History. Mitchell says it was the first such African-American Museum in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>\nAt the event, Dr. Burroughs suggested it\u2019s nice to get such accolades while she\u2019s still alive to hear them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5630771\" title=\"DuSable Museum founder Margaret Burroughs honored\" rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xdIkyChQa_FXP1yucOhnoB7q4nY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xdIkyChQa_FXP1yucOhnoB7q4nY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xdIkyChQa_FXP1yucOhnoB7q4nY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xdIkyChQa_FXP1yucOhnoB7q4nY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=seOOYlSYPCU:GakUBmJhsq8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=seOOYlSYPCU:GakUBmJhsq8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=seOOYlSYPCU:GakUBmJhsq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=seOOYlSYPCU:GakUBmJhsq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/seOOYlSYPCU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Dellimore, Political Editor, reporting CHICAGO (WBBM) &#8212; The Daley Administration is honoring historian Dr. Margaret Burroughs with an exhibit along the lakefront at 70th and South Shore Drive. Members of the South Shore Opera Company serenaded the guest of honor as Mayor Richard M. Daley presided over the dedications of the Margaret Burroughs Gallery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}