North First Street Redevelopment Project Map

Redevelopment

Map showing the state of the buildings along North First Street, as of 1995.

North First Street Redevelopment Team - City of Champaign

John Lee Johnson Papers

1995

North First Street Drawing

Redevelopment

Drawing of North First Street prepared as part of the redevelopment initiative in the mid-1990s. The drawing extends from the Cattle Bank to the Lone Star Lounge.

Severns and Associates

John Lee Johnson Papers

ca. 1995

John Lee Johnson North First Street files (SELECTIONS)

John Lee Johnson

Archival files from the John Lee Johnson Papers documenting John Lee Johnson's involvement in the revitalization and re-development of North First Street during the 1990s and early 2000s. Contains only selections. For the complete files visit the Illinois Historical Survey, University of Illinois Library.

John Lee Johnson Papers

John Lee Johnson clippings file

John Lee Johnson

Clippings file from the John Lee Johnson Papers, located in the Illinois History Survey and Lincoln Collections, University of Illinois Library.

John Lee Johnson

various

Miscellaneous North End files

North End

Files on various programs in the North End housed at the Champaign County Historical Archives. Includes information on the Community Advocacy Dept, Progress Association for Economic Development, North End Gospel, North Urbana, and a four-part series on the North End that appeared in the Courier in 1970.

various

African-American Masons File

Architecture--Lone Star Lounge, Geography--North First Street, Community Organization--Masons, Media--News-Gazette, Urban Renewal

Clippings file on the Lone Star Lounge and African-American Masons. Champaign County Historical Archives.

"Colored Masons. A consistory Instuited Among Them in Champaign"

"Black Lodge gets new home" by Paul Wood (News-Gazette) April 21, 2000

News-Gazette

Champaign County Historical Archives

Various dates.

Paul Wood

Document

North First Street File

Preservation, North First Street

Clippings file on North First Street at the Champaign County Historical Archives. Includes historic preservation reports on buildings on North First Street prepared by the Preservation and Conservation Association (PACA).

Champaign County Historical Archives, Preservation and Conservation Assocation

1990

Progress Association for Economic Development Clippings file

PAED, John Lee Johnson

Clippings file for the Progress Association for Economic Development, a social service agency on the 100-block of North First Street in the 1970s. Clippings file at the Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library.

1970s

Community Advocacy Depot File

Community Organization--Community Advocacy Depot, Politics and Activism, Library-Archive-Museum--Champaign County Historical Archives, Poverty, Geography--North First Street

File on the Community Advocacy Depot, located on the 100-block of North First Street in the 1970s, in the Urban League Archive, in the Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library.

File on the Community Advocacy Depot, located on the 100-block of North First Street in the 1970s, in the Urban League Archive, in the Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana Free Library.

Community Advocacy Depot

Community Advocacy Depot

Urban League Archive

Urban League Archive

1969-1975

1969-1975

Document

Document

Let's Talk!

Politics and Activism, Community Organizations--Concerned Citizens for a Better Neighborhood, Social Services

Flyer distributed by the Black Community Network to advertise a community meeting hosted by the Concerned Citizens for a Better Neighborhood at the Douglas Annex.

Urban League Archive

undated

flyer