he holidays are an opportunity to reflect, spend time with loved ones, prepare for the coming year—and eat as many pastries and cookies as you possibly can. Honestly, is there a better time of year to visit a bakery? Probably not, and the South Side has a fantastic assortment of bakeries to choose from. Here’s […]
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What Happened to Mariano’s?
efore Charles Barlow moved to South Shore earlier this year, he wanted to scope out the neighborhood. He looked up the local grocery stores, got in his car, and drove to the corner of 87th Street and Lake Shore Drive, where he expected to find a Mariano’s. Instead of fresh food, he was greeted by […]
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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 […]
Best of Pilsen 2016
• Best-Art Coffee Combo • Best Place to Watch Things on a Screen • Best Bookstore Already Profiled by the Reader • Best Record Store with a Thing for Huey Lewis • Best Post-Macaroni Arts Nexus n my eighteen years, I’ve lived in three different states in five different cities. Growing up I faced […]
Best of Pullman & Roseland 2016
• Best Site-Specific Art Project • Best Alternative History • Best Place to Feel at Home • Best Weekend Soul Food • Best Use of Salvage Material n 1881, George Pullman chose Chicago to hold “the World’s Most Perfect Town.” Because of his earlier experiences in the city, he believed that the Chicago spirit […]
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 […]
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 […]
Best of South Shore 2016
• Best Dedication to Community Gathering • Best Old-School Crowdfunding • Best Name That States the Obvious • Best Food Buying Club • Best Place to Be Full wish I could give this feeling. When I think of my beloved South Shore. Images, sounds, smells flood my mind. The smell of aquatic life mixes with spring breezes through newly […]
Best of Bronzeville 2016
• Best Very Old Arts Recreation Hub • Best Very New Arts Recreation Hub • Best Arts Hub Designed By an MMA Fighter • Best Place to Exercise Your Free Will • Best Benevolence • Best Headgear ronzeville is a social construction,” writes Natalie Moore in her book The South Side, published earlier this year. She’s referring to the fact […]