Neighborhoods

Looking for stories about your community? Select from the list of neighborhoods below. Our coverage area is always expanding, so shoot us an email if you have a local story you think we should be covering. —Archer Heights —Auburn Gresham —Back of the Yards —Beverly —Bridgeport —Brighton Park —Bronzeville —Chatham —Chicago Lawn —Chinatown —Englewood —Far Southeast […]

Posted inColumn, Education

Notes from the White Rhino

As I begin my twenty-first year as an educator, I can honestly say I’ve never before felt the need to defend my profession as I have the last few years. When I started teaching at 22, I got lots of praise for choosing this career. But these days, I’m always on the defensive against so […]

Posted inBest of the South Side 2016, Gage Park, Midway

Best of Gage Park & Midway 2016

• Best Architecturally Unorthodox Church • Best Not-What-You’re-Thinking Pizza • Best Just-Outside-the-Airport Food • Best “Representatives”   ’ve lived in Gage Park for twenty-three years. Someone in my family had a house here—I believe it was my mother’s uncle who moved here, and then a few years later some cousins moved here, not to the […]

Posted inBest of the South Side 2016, Chicago Lawn

Best of Chicago Lawn 2016

• Best Reminder • Best Prairie • Best Taste of Belize   Best Reminder MLK Living Memorial Visitors can’t help but envision Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leading a Chicago Freedom Movement march against housing segregation as they walk toward the new MLK Living Memorial in Marquette Park, which was dedicated in early August as a part of […]