There was an interesting article in Preservation Magazine this month about Chicago's Historic African American neighborhoods. The author, Jennifer Farwell, tied her hope for the existing blighted areas to the historic election of Barack Obama. Written with an upbeat sense of optimism, she points out the importance of preservation and telling stories about history through the scant surviving buildings that remain in Chicago. One of the pictures in the article was of the Chicago Defender building at 3435 S. Indiana Avenue. The picture of the door, also in the article, is at 24th and Michigan (the newspaper was once located in this building.) I know because while taking pictures of Motor Row I came across the building and snapped a picture of the door. It's detail, although shabby and in need of repair, reflected the opulent times of that era.