In the late 1960s, the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party distributed free breakfast to schoolchildren at a youth services center in North Lawndale.
On Sunday, several former chapter members gathered at the center over collard greens, chicken thighs and macaroni to celebrate the organization being permanently written into the history books.
In the coming months, commemorative plaques will be placed outside the center, along with 11 other sites in Chicago and one in Peoria associated with the Black Panthers…