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others considered the resort the triumph of American democracy and a healthy and innocent release from the drudgery and regimentation of industrial society

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The Negro in Illinois Christopher Lukas jagged ridges of Snowdon toThe Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration programs. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro in Illinois employed Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Katherine Dunham, Fenton Johnson, Frank Yerby, Richard Durham, and other major black writers living in Chicago. The authors chronicled the