Bulletin Queering Black History Chicago’s black LGBT community is the focus of Queering Black History, an evening of story-sharing at the Chicago Urban League hosted by oral history project StoryCorps and Affinity Community Services, a social justice group that has served Chicago’s black LGBT community for two decades. The event will be emceed by Kai […]
Search results
Posted inCalendar
Calendar for February 4, 2015
Bulletin Poll Watching Training for the Chicago Municipal Elections Dr. Lora Chamberlain will provide free poll watching training Wednesday, February 4 at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, helping those who wish to volunteer at the polls during municipal elections on February 24. Dr. Chamberlain, known in part for her anti-fracking advocacy, has helped watch […]
Posted inActivism, Environment, Little Village
Citizens for an Unpolluted La Villita
On December 14, Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent the day in Little Village. He was the center of a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly completed Park 553, dubbed “La Villita” by residents and journalists, where he touted the twenty-two-acre site as one of several new green spaces opened during his time in office and a major victory for the park-starved neighborhood.
Front Page 12/05/14
Comics | Features | Music Education Plans to Expand What the mayor’s plan for more pre-K means locally by Olivia Myszkowski “If we want to continue making progress, we have to start in the earliest years of a child’s life,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel pronounced emphatically before a packed chamber on October 15, as part of […]
Front Page 11/19/2014
Development | Features | Politics The Once and Future Green Line The story of Chicago’s Oldest “L” by Andrew Lovdahl Education Plans to Expand What the mayor’s plan for more pre-K means locally by Olivia Myszkowski “If we want to continue making progress, we have to start in the earliest years of a child’s life,” […]
Posted inCalendar
Calendar for November 12, 2014
BULLETIN Starting with this issue, the Weekly will use this space to highlight political and civic events happening across the South Side. City on the Make Professor of American History and Culture at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Andrew Diamond tours the South Side with a series of lectures and panel discussions at the UofC and […]
Posted inHousing, Police, Violence
Kicking the Pigeon
On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at about 5pm, Diane Bond, a forty-eight-year-old mother of three, stepped out of her eighth-floor apartment in 3651 S. Federal, the last remaining highrise at the Stateway Gardens public housing development, and encountered three white men.
Front Page 10/22/14
Features | Politics Will the 25th Ward Send a Socialist to City Hall? Jorge Mújica runs for alderman by Osita Nwanevu Visual Arts 2-D Levels Up “Bit Wars” at BLUE1647 by Stephen Urchick As a visual art installation focused on video game aesthetics, “Bit Wars: Art Tribute to 8bit and 16bit Videogaming” had its work […]
Front Page 10/15/14
Features|Stage & Screen|Visual Arts Slow Burn A dampened story of grit and greatness, or how Redmoon forgot their biggest spectacle by Stephen Urchick Politics|Education Rally for Karen Lewis by Bess Cohen When the opportunity arose to possibly overcome Emanuel—whose approval ratings were at thirty-five percent as of August—Lewis used the spotlight of potential candidacy to […]