As musicians tuned their saxophones and violins, the Sunday morning service at St. Sabina’s, on 78th and Racine, began with an announcement: “If you want to get married at St. Sabina, you must attend our seminar, ‘Becoming One.'”
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Posted inVisual Arts
The End of the Line
n Monday, February 3, artist Theaster Gates spoke to a small crowd in St. James’s church, on 93rd and Lafayette. The topic of conversation was the art installations that Gates will be creating for the soon-to-be renovated 95th Street Red Line station, just three blocks from the church.
Posted inLit, Portraits
Equal Property
Beryl Satter combined a gripping personal story and a meticulously-researched history of systematic racism in her 2010 book Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America. The narrative thread that ties her book together is the story of her father Mark Satter, a crusading Chicago lawyer. Like a real-life Atticus Finch, he […]
Posted inHyde Park, Visual Arts
Gendered Bodies
The white walls and stark layout of “Resisterectomy” at the Gray Center have an almost clinical feel. Patrons move from one display to another in reverent silence, and there is a sense of eerie calm.
Posted inBlurbs, Englewood
Out in the Cold
uring the penultimate week of October, temperatures in Chicago fell to unseasonable lows, sending many of the city’s residents into the heated refuge of their homes. Nineteen women and twenty-three children in Englewood, however, were afforded no such luxury. Save for a few spare blankets and space heaters, the residents of Clara’s Place, a thirteen-unit […]
Posted inInterviews, Politics
A South Side Conservative
t can be awfully hard to tell at times if Illinois Treasurer candidate Michael Scott Carter is giving you a TED talk or a stump speech. “We’re in the process of building a website that’ll be a clearinghouse for innovation,” he says earnestly about his work with the United Nations’ Leading Group on Innovative Financing […]