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- Ahndi Fridell
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- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- "Maxey's Mansion"
- Summary: Alva Maxey-Boyd, now in her nineties, defied race covenants, urban renewal bulldozers, and two Mayor Daleys in a seven-decade battle to get and keep her gorgeous 19th-century mansion. Now, she's left as the last resident on her block of Chicago's South Prairie Avenue.
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Review of Maxey's Mansion
Ahndi Fridell
Posted on March 01, 2006 at 07:50 AM
I thoroughly enjoyed this piece - especially hearing from Maxey herself. She's got this wonderful voice and such a relaxed way of speaking and a great laugh. It's a nice historical piece - reading old newspaper accounts and official city documents adds to Maxey's memories and Chicago development historians. It's an interesting tale, too, of fighting for what you want.