The Muddy Waters MOJO Museum got a $1.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation's Humanities in Place program. Blues legend Muddy Waters lived in this two-flat in the North Kenwood neighborhood ...

In 1954, 11 years after walking away from a Mississippi sharecropper’s life, Muddy Waters made enough money to buy a house in Chicago. The price was $18,000, which is equal to about $210,000 in ...

The effort to turn the former home of blues great Muddy Waters into a museum got its biggest financial boost to date, a $1.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.