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December 2020

Posted inActivism

On a Gradual Path to a $15 Minimum Wage

by Jacqueline Serrato December 31, 2020January 4, 2021

ver the summer, Chicago’s minimum wage increased to $13.50 per hour for small employers and $14 per hour for larger workplaces. Some municipalities in Cook County are close behind at $13. But for many Chicagoans who work outside the city and county limits—not uncommon for the region’s lowest-paid workers—the Illinois minimum wage is set to […]

Sheila Jones. Plant Chicago.
Posted inFood

Plant Chicago Connects Link Card Holders to Local Farms

by Jocelyn Vega December 31, 2020January 1, 2021
Hyde Park Academy
Posted inActivism

Local School Council Elections Were Faced with Challenges That Undermine the Legitimacy of the Process

by Kelly Garcia December 30, 2020January 20, 2021
Posted inCommunity

The People Rose Up: A Black Summer 2020 Timeline

by The Triibe and South Side Weekly December 28, 2020February 2, 2021
Posted inCover

The New Southwest Side: Young, Latinx, and Ready to Take the Reins

by Lynda Lopez and City Bureau December 26, 2020December 28, 2020
Posted inActivism

What (Other) People Are Saying About Lightfoot’s 2021 Budget

by Jade-Ruyu Yan December 18, 2020July 6, 2021
Illustration Credit: Mell Montezuma
Posted inHousing

Lights Out

by Alex Ruppenthal December 14, 2020July 23, 2021
Opioid Checkers. Photo Credit: AV Benford
Posted inHealth

South Side Stakeholders Unite as Task Force to Fight Opioid Epidemic

by Alex Shur December 12, 2020July 6, 2021
Renderings of the “Always Growing, Auburn Gresham” Chicago Prize-winning plan. Courtesy Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation.
Posted inAuburn Gresham

With the Competition for the Chicago Prize Behind Them, South and West Side Community Organizations Keep Doing the Work

by Jonathan Dale December 11, 2020July 23, 2021
Portrait photo of Blvck Svm
Posted inArt

How 2020 Pushed Rapper Blvck Svm to New Heights

by Noah Tesfaye December 9, 2020May 6, 2021

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