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Binga Block storefronts (State Street, 47th-48th) and Binga Arcade shops (35th & State)

CTL-E-1350 · Business · other · 1920s-1930 (Binga Bank closed June 1930)

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Ordinary retail layer of Jesse Binga's property holdings: the Binga Block on State between 47th and 48th hosted a pharmacy with door-to-door Poro product sales and a barber shop; the Binga Arcade at 35th and State housed the bank plus offices, shops, and a dance floor. Documented at block level, not as named firms.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-010; source research type(s): business.

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Black enterprise — the shops, banks, and trades that built it. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Negro grocery store, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill, Chicago, 1941
Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill, Chicago, 1941Photo: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill, Chicago, 1941
Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill, Chicago, 1941Photo: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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