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Newsboys were a common sights on Chicago's streets as Chicago's newspapers competed with each other for headlines and readers. Here, a newsboy sells the Chicago Defender near the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Building at 3501 South Parkway (later Martin Luther King Drive), March 1942.

Photographer: Jack Delano
Source: Library of Congress

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