>> As we've mentioned today was also a holiday for many observing Martin Luther King Junior day in the 1960's, the civil rights leader came to Chicago and lived in a North Lawndale apartment with his wife, Coretta Scott King to draw attention to poor living conditions on the city's south and west sides are.

Joanna Hernandez joins a Chicago urban historian as he takes passengers on a tour of key locations.

Were King made an impact?

>> What I knocks or that if something has a name and has a history.

Sherman, Dylan Thomas is an urban historian taking people on tours and educating them about the city's rich history.

This particular tour is all about Doctor Martin Luther King Junior's deep connections to Chicago and what's happening in those communities today.

Dr King based his base camp.

>> During a Chicago Freedom campaign, Dr King decided he has struck up a friendship.

With business business.

Don't allow him to preach here.

Wow.

He was here during that year and down South Hamlin Avenue in the North Lawndale community.

>> also the site where Doctor King live.

>> By 1966, King had already made a name for himself.

He had delivered his famous.

I have a dream speech and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when he came to Chicago in 1965, he had a mission for the city.

>> They offered to put them up in the Palmer House.

He said no, because he wanted to live by.

People actually lived over here.

So I picked a dilapidated apartment.

That's day.

Why he either gets a lead is draws out a suit case yet.

All the kids are there to meet him.

Shake the man's hand.

And when they're done.

All the people are there to speak about what they're living in the living conditions.

Number one, cause of death black kids back in those days was fire and rat bites speaks directly the absentee landlord that was happening in these spaces.

King began speaking across Chicago and leading marches through gauge in Marquette Park.

>> We're marchers faced attacks from white counter demonstrators.

That's where >> he says that he say racism all across the south.

Whenever like you saw here, that's where he was in with a bald these marches eventually led Mayor Richard Daley to sit down with King Cain, gave daily demand.

Liz.

>> Of about 16 demands.

He wanted to see change.

And Daley said, you know what, you're right, a change.

All that is.

But I can't say that what you living in the city because people look think I lost power.

So why don't you go back down south?

And so as you leave will start changing stuff.

They had a handshake agreement and we can laugh.

Nothing changed.

But that lesson he learned in Chicago taught him his most important lesson.

Do not leave without the paperwork.

They went back to DC in the state so they pass the Fair Housing Act.

>> During the Tour de LA also takes passengers to locations.

He says continues to uphold King's legacy.

We stop at Douglas Park were delicious years.

The story of a determined girl who sought to change the park's name in 2020 she discovered he was named after Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator from Illinois who owned over 150 slaves.

>> Their little girl says.

>> haven't might come into play in a park named after a person doesn't respect my humanity.

>> It was like, there's a good question.

So partnered with an organization called The takes a village.

takes a village was able to garner 300,000 signatures in order to get the name of that was part change.

So the city loved it because it's the easiest name change in the history Chicago.

We changed the name of Douglas Park.

To Douglas Park.

Exactly.

And it has said that even now is named for Frazier.

added that was black abolitionists.

And that's sure not, example, of King's Spirit being alive today.

>> For Chicago tonight, join Hernandez.

>> The tour was conducted in