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After a Black media empire fell, a photographer explored the extraordinary building it left behind

The book preserves the tower’s intact interiors and cultural legacy as the former Ebony and Jet headquarters, which was vacated by 2012.

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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Just four years after the Civil Rights era, Chicago welcomed its first downtown high rise designed by a Black architect for a Black-owned company. For four decades, the Johnson Publishing Company occupied an 11-story tower at 820 S. Michigan Avenue that was a monument to Black culture, sending out millions of

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After a Black media empire fell, a photographer explored the extraordinary building it left behind

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Just four years after the Civil Rights era, Chicago welcomed its first downtown high rise designed by a Black architect for a Black-owned company. For four decades, the Johnson Publishing Company occupied an 11-story tower at 820 S. Michigan Avenue that was a monument to Black culture, sending out millions of

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KIFI broke the news in Idaho Falls, United States on Thursday, October 22, 2026.
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