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WEBA recap of select open meetings at the local, county, and state level. August 29, 2024. Community newspaper by and for Chicago's South Side. Arts, Culture, Politics. Est. 2013.
The Narratives of Robeson High School
WEBThe Lisagor award-winning project would not have been possible without you. By sharing your experiences at Robeson High School with us, we were able to put together an hour-long radio program tracing through Robeson's 40-year history, a special issue of South Side Weekly newspaper devoted to the stories you told us, and an archive.
Hip-Hop Museum Puts Respect on Chicago’s Contributions
WEBDec 20, 2023 — The folks who fondly remember the South Side 90s hip-hop scene are fiercely protective when preserving their history. by Evan F. Moore December 20, 2023. Euphonics members hanging out in a South Side basement in the 1990s. Credit: Provided. Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum cofounder Darrell …
Your Friendly (and Only) Employee-Owned Neighborhood Bookstore
WEBJul 30, 2023 — Pilsen Community Books, founded in 2016, made a historical shift in 2020. That March, the shop became Chicago’s only employee-owned and operated independent bookstore. Mandy Medley, who has worked in bookstores for many years, ten of which have been in Chicago, is one of the store’s three owners. When the …
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Fifty Years of Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition - South Side …
WEBSep 27, 2019 — C hicago-style coalition-building helped to produce the first Black mayor of Chicago and put its first Latinx representatives in office. Some even believe its legacy led to the election of the city’s first Black woman mayor. But unbeknownst to many, this form of organizing started in the streets fifty years ago with what was called the “Rainbow Coalition”: a progressive, fundamentally ...
Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation – South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 24, 2022 — This story was produced for WTTW’S FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION, an award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago.South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual reporting and analysis covering the impact racial divisions have on individuals, the city ...
The Chicago Housing Authority Explained – South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 25, 2022 — O riginally intended to replace overcrowded, deeply impoverished neighborhoods, Chicago’s midcentury public housing developments initially offered significantly better living conditions to residents, and for a time were, as author Dawn Turner told the South Side Weekly, “bastions” of stability that “conferred dignity on the residents.”. But subsequent decades of disinvestment and ...
A Palace for the People - South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 12, 2019 — A Palace for the People. by Jeanne Lieberman February 12, 2019. Jason Schumer. This story was a finalist for the 2019 “Best Arts Reporting and Criticism” in a non-daily newspaper or magazine Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club. Boasting four tall towers, each topped by an American flag …
What Happened May 30?
WEBOn May 30, there were 494 arrests citywide, including for disorderly conduct (373), civil unrest (414), looting (28), and firearms (16). Eighty-five officers reported being injured on duty that day. And between May 29 and June 4 more than 250 complaints were filed against CPD with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.
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