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Documentary about former Wilmington bluesman wins prestigious state award

Star News 04 Nov 2021

“Mojoman ... The film produced by Michael Raab (editor Patrick Ogelvie), tells how the former Wilmington bluesman William Collins became the Mojoman by a chance encounter with McKinley Morganfield (known professionally as Muddy Waters), on his way to join the Air Force, transforming himself into the legendary blues guitarist. More ... More ... More ... Nov ... .

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City landmarks home of Blues great Muddy Waters

Chicago Business 14 Oct 2021

Dennis Rodkin. The Muddy Waters home at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave ... Mississippi-born as McKinley Morganfield, who took the stage name Muddy Waters, bought the red-brick two-flat on South Lake Park Avenue in 1954 and lived there until the late 1970s, when he moved with his children to Westmont ... More. An unprecedented push to save historic Black homes is on ... .

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Chicago gets its mojo working and gives Muddy Waters’ home preliminary landmark status

Chicago Sun-Times 05 Jun 2021

Blues musician Muddy Waters’ former home, 4339 S. Lake Park Ave., has been granted preliminary landmark status. Provided ... Waters, born McKinley Morganfield in 1913, owned the two-story brick Victorian home at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave., from 1954 to 1973 ... Send letters to letters@suntimes.com ....

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South Side home of blues legend Muddy Waters a step closer to city landmark status

Chicago Sun-Times 04 Jun 2021

McKinley Morganfield was born in rural Issaquena County, Mississippi, in 1913, the son of a sharecropper who played guitar on weekends ... The Rolling Stones took their name from Waters’ single, “(Like a) Rolling Stone.” “On behalf of the family of McKinley Morganfield, we believe it ...

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Muddy Waters house gets unanimous boost from landmarks commission

Chicago Business 03 Jun 2021

Dennis Rodkin. Muddy Waters ... More ... Emmett Till home declared landmark ... Lake Park Avenue, was the home of McKinley Morganfield, whose stage name was Muddy Waters, from 1954 until the early 1970s ... Lake Park ... Like so many southern Blacks who came to Chicago during the Great Migration, McKinley Morganfield came in search of opportunity, said Ald ...   ... .

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Muddy Waters House In North Kenwood Granted Preliminary Landmark Status

CBS Sports 03 Jun 2021

The commission will consider a final recommendation to landmark the home later this summer, and that recommendation would then go to the Chicago City Council for a vote.READ MORE ... Born McKinley Morganfield, Waters grew up in Mississippi and moved to Chicago in 1943 to expand his music career and find work in the city’s factories during World War II.

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Muddy Waters home landmarking effort to kick off a few days sooner

Chicago Business 28 May 2021

The Commission on Chicago Landmarks will consider the idea for his former North Kenwood home June 3, several days ahead of a previously announced aldermanic meeting. Dennis Rodkin. Muddy Waters ... McKinley Morganfield, whose stage name was Muddy Waters, bought the North Kenwood two-flat in 1954 and lived there until he moved to Westmont in the 1970s ... .

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Effort to landmark Muddy Waters' home will kick off a few days sooner

Chicago Business 28 May 2021

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Muddy Waters landmark talk is about to shift into high gear

Chicago Business 25 May 2021

Chandra Cooper, the great-granddaughter of McKinley Morganfield (whose stage name was Muddy Waters), owns the house and plans to turn it into the Muddy Waters Mojo Museum ... Mississippi-born Morganfield bought the house in 1954, according to Illinois Landmarks, and lived there until the early 1970s, when he moved with his children to Westmont ... .

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Muddy Waters home may become city's next Black landmark

Chicago Business 25 May 2021

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Amid broad opposition, alderman drops proposal on house museums

Chicago Business 23 Mar 2021

Dennis Rodkin. The former home of blues great Muddy Waters, at 4339 S. Lake Park Avenue, is at the center of this aerial photo.  ... Cooper, whose great-grandfather McKinley Morganfield went by the stage name Muddy Waters, said “we need these houses to tell the stories within the communities that (Muddy Waters) and others lived in ... .

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Emmett Till, Muddy Waters museums would slow under this proposed rule

Chicago Business 18 Mar 2021

Ald. Sophia King is shepherding a measure that would require zoning approval for turning historic houses into museums ... Dennis Rodkin. The former home of blues great Muddy Waters, at 4339 S ... Ald ... More ... King is doing,” said Chandra Cooper, a great-granddaughter of McKinley Morganfield, whose stage name was Muddy Waters ... More. The wealth gap ... .

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Proposed rule would slow opening of Emmett Till, Muddy Waters museums

Chicago Business 17 Mar 2021

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For Joseph ‘Mojo’ Morganfield, making music like his famous dad is a very ‘Good’ thing

Chicago Sun-Times 09 Dec 2020

Joseph ‘Mojo’ Morganfield is photographed on the front steps of his father’s — Muddy Waters — house, 4339 South Lake Park Avenue in Chicago, which is being rehabbed for a museum in honor of the legendary bluesman ... “Mojo” Morganfield, 56, is the youngest son of Waters, who was born McKinley Morganfield in 1915.

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Afternoon Edition: Dec. 9, 2020

Chicago Sun-Times 09 Dec 2020

A bright one For Joseph ‘Mojo’ Morganfield, making music like his famous dad is a very ‘Good’ thing Joseph “Mojo” Morganfield grew up with a musical legend for a father ... “Mojo” Morganfield, 56, is the youngest son of Waters, who was born McKinley Morganfield in 1915.