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Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation

This is post 1 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” This series was produced for WTTW’S FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION, an award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago. South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual reporting and analysis […]

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Interactive Map of House City Events

ummer in Chicago—and especially summer’s second act—is magic. By August, the lake is in a Goldilocks zone, perfect for dipping, and languid evenings in the park or backyard are almost humid enough to convince you wind chill never existed. Chicagoans, wise to the ephemerality of such moments, grab hold of summer with both hands: grilling, […]

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Chicago’s Vaccine Disparity Widens

ow that the City’s campaign to vaccinate highly vulnerable communities has ended, what progress was made in reducing the vaccination gap between Protect Chicago Plus community areas and the citywide average? An analysis by the Weekly shows that the gap between targeted ZIP codes and the rest of the city has actually increased over time. That […]

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Running for the South Side

lmost every Saturday morning, Courtney Phillips heads to 51st and Calumet to lead a group run. Despite the threat of rain on April 10, sixteen people—mostly Black and brown—gathered on the large patch of wood chips at 8am outside of Last Lap Cornerstore, one of the very few running-specific stores south of Roosevelt. Phillips adjusted […]

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Grocery Store Employees Among Essential Workers Lagging Behind on Vaccines

ur analysis demonstrates that many ZIP Codes on the South Side still have relatively low vaccination rates for first doses, even though a disproportionately large percentage of their residents are essential workers eligible for the vaccine, according to the most recent data on where Chicago’s workforce resides. The current vaccination Phase, 1b, expanded vaccine eligibility […]

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The Housing Issue

ast year we couldn’t publish our annual Housing Issue due to the uncertainty of COVID-19, but this year we found it appropriate to bring back the special issue and look at housing through the pandemic lens. On January 25, the City of Chicago entered phase 1b of its vaccination plan. The same day, South Side […]

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Which Chicagoans Are Getting Vaccinated? A Twitter Bot Updated Daily

n Monday, January 25, the City of Chicago entered phase 1b of its vaccination plan. South Side Weekly’s open-source Twitter bot, created by Bea Malsky and Charmaine Runes, visualizes relative concentrations of COVID-19 deaths and fully vaccinated residents to date. Our daily tracker pulls data directly from the Chicago Data Portal. The first map illustrates the […]