Erisa Apantaku (@erisa_apantaku) is the executive producer of South Side Weekly Radio. Last year, her team completed a multimedia project about the history of Robeson High School. Ellie Mejía (@_elliemejia) co-pilots the Public Newsroom, City Bureau’s free weekly workshop series. Ellie last illustrated Gwendolyn Brooks’ home for the Weekly.
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Posted inFood Issue 2018
License to Grow
istorically, agriculture and urban planning have had a tight-knit but fraught relationship. In the lower-income neighborhoods of nineteenth-century American cities, livestock—necessary sources of food and wealth—were common, as were concerns about the public health consequences of dense tenements clustered with people and pigs. Some early attempts at outlawing animals for sanitary reasons were met with […]
Posted inBest of the South Side 2017
Best of Midway & Ashburn 2017
Best Self-Guided Aviation Tour Best “Friend” of the Lithuanian Diaspora Best Secret History of a Mall Best Grilled Cactus n Chicago’s early history, the Midway area was largely undeveloped. The Orange Line didn’t extend from downtown to the airport until the 1990s. The area first grew slowly around transportation, manufacturing, and shipping. Later it […]
Posted inMusic, Music Issue 2017
2016 in Artists
Adamn Killa In the last few years, plenty of rappers have been pigeonholed for their “mumbly” voices and fondness for ad libs. Roseland-raised rapper Adamn Killa was often on the receiving end of these comparisons. But in 2016, it was impossible to confuse him with anyone else, and not just because of his face tat […]
Posted inEducation, Politics
Budget Cuts by the Numbers
ast week, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) unveiled the details of its latest round of budget cuts. After CPS failed to receive state funding, CEO Forrest Claypool initiated the cuts in an attempt to close a $480 million budget gap. CPS is currently operating at a $1.1 billion deficit, and administrators are facing criticism from the […]
Posted inPolice, Politics
The Numbers Game
“The numbers might look good,” Davis said, “but [those programs] sacrifice the quality of investigation.”
Posted inFeatures, Politics
Who Will Carry the Burden?
“It would be very surprising if the renter paid nothing.”
Posted inFeatures, Politics
What the Rauner Budget Means for the South Side
Rauner has called for nearly $4 billion in cuts to social programs
Food Issue 2015
Early this year, foodies from across the city and around the country converged on over 250 of the city’s best eateries for the eighth annual Chicago Restaurant Week. Fewer than two dozen of this year’s participating restaurants were located on the South Side. For nearly two weeks, those interested in exploring perhaps America’s greatest food […]
The Housing Issue
look at the residential landscape of our city hints at questions asked and answered many times over: questions of who belongs where, how they should be able to live, what pieces of our built history should be saved, and how we should remember what’s gone. In this, the Weekly’s 2015 Housing Issue, we tackle the […]