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November 13: Chicago singer and songwriter Ella Jenkins, known as the ‘First Lady of Children’s Music,’ has died at the age of 100.
Jenkins, a children’s folk singer whose career spanned more than 60 years, died peacefully on Saturday at the senior facility where she lived in Uptown.
Born in St. Louis, she moved to Chicago as a child. She taught herself the ukulele and the harmonica as a youngster.