January 8, 2014
Massachusetts Gov. and South Side native Deval Patrick will deliver the keynote address at the University of Chicago’s (U of C) Martin Luther King Celebration at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Patrick, the first African American Gov. of Massachusetts, elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010, has deep ties to the South Side of Chicago and the Washington Park community, where he was raised by his mother and grandparents in an apartment near the corner of 54th Street and Wabash Avenue.
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to Serve as Keynote Speaker at Dr. King Celebration
A former Chicago South Side resident, who is now governor of another state, will come back to Chicago this month to help celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.