This series was a finalist for the 2018 “Best Feature Series” in a non-daily newspaper or magazine Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club The second in a series on pretrial detention avette Mayes, a mother from the Southeast Side detained pretrial for her inability to pay bail, spent fourteen months in jail before […]
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Taxing a Divided Chinatown
点击这里读中文翻译 ince fall 2016, organizers with the United Chinatown Organization (UCO), a coalition of small business owners, have been collecting signatures from Chinatown residents. In early January, they frantically organized the signatures into a petition, and on their exact deadline of January 16, they submitted it to the city. The petition opposed the potential levy […]
Posted inVisual Arts
Art on the Block
hicago is one of the cultural powerhouses of the world,” muses Mark Kelly, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. “We have thousands of great artists and so we need to support our artists, we need to value our artists and then…they can…make our city a better place by […]
Posted inBest of the South Side 2015, Bridgeport
Best of Bridgeport 2015
stone’s throw away from Chicago’s downtown area, one might find oneself in this nondescript, inconspicuous neighborhood called Bridgeport. With its post-industrial sheen, one would never guess the historic significance it holds: thousands and thousands of immigrants started up their American dream right here. It was a start-up for throngs arriving from throughout Europe. Word spread […]
Posted inStage & Screen
Restoring the South Side’s Movie Houses
hen it opened in 1927, the Picadilly Theatre on Hyde Park Boulevard could easily seat over 2,000 audience members. Fifty years after its closing in 1963, restaurateur-moguls Bruce Finkelman and Craig Golden of Empty Bottle, Longman & Eagle, and Thalia Hall scavenged the site for architectural fragments to use in their new Hyde Park restaurant, […]
Posted inArchitecture, Politics
Preserving South Side Architecture
“What do you do with something that is part of your history but can no longer really function in the same way?”
Posted inFeatures, Housing
Vacant and Abandoned
As long as the deed goes unrecorded, the lender that owns the building can avoid property taxes, vacant building regulations and fees, utilities bills, and essentially all accountability for the property.
Posted inPolitics
Out of Prison, Heading to the Polls
The population of ex-offenders remains a vast, underrepresented demographic.
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Calendar for November 19, 2014
STAGE & SCREEN Story Club South Side: My Other Talent Why read nonfiction narratives when you can watch them live? Story Club South Side is ready to deliver all the amusement of open mic combined with the thrill of live theater at this month’s show, “My Other Talent” at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Unlike most of […]