A week’s worth of developing stories, events, and signs of the times, culled from the desks, inboxes, and wandering eyes of the editors Notes How Low Can You Go? Justin Breen, DNAinfo’s inveterate reporter on Chicago’s topographical extremes and author of a 2015 article on “Chicago’s Tallest Hill, a ‘Mountain of Garbage,’” wrote recently about the “lowest […]
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Ground Zero
earing glasses and a heavy green sweater, Patrick MacRoy kneels down in the sweltering basement of his yellow brick Andersonville condominium and presses a key against the metal pipe. As he begins scratching it, silver filings shave off the pipe and fall onto the floor. That’s how MacRoy, the former director of the city’s Lead […]
Posted inFeatures, Politics, Transportation
Underserved and Under the Spotlight
“There’s no question that a lot of people are getting service that weren’t getting it before,” Mayer said of Uber’s ridesharing services, but at the same time, “most folks driving Uberx are not bopping over to Englewood or Pullman or Roseland to get a cup of coffee.”
Posted inComics, Interviews
Resistance Remembered
“I make art because I see the ways in which our histories of resistance get erased.”
Posted inComics
Comics Issue 2015
Welcome to the South Side Weekly’s first ever Comics Issue. In the past the Weekly has published profiles of South Side artists and musicians, stories about political events, and even recipes from South Side food institutions, all in comic form. This issue, chock-full of words and pictures about life on the South Side, is our […]
Story Lines
Join South Side Weekly and the Illustrated Press at Cultura in Pilsen to celebrate the opening of Story Lines, a gallery show of comics journalism pieces from and about the South Side. Featuring completed works and process sketches by Darryl Holliday, Erik Rodriguez, Jamie Hibdon, Carlos Mattalana, Javier Suarez, Jean Cochrane, Bea Malsky, Maha Ahmed […]
Posted inFeatures, Music
QTIPOC to the Front
“We’re trying to redefine punk as being about survivalism and DIY culture, which are imperative if you’re a marginalized person in this country.”