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Best of Pullman & Roseland 2021
Best Clock Tower Best African American Labor History Museum Best Restorative Justice Experiment Through Urban Community Gardening Best Place to Get Your Shot Best Place to Watch the Sunset n Labor Day weekend this year, Pullman stepped back into the spotlight. The town where Labor Day originated following the deaths of thirteen company workers during […]
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I WANT A GOD WHOSE HEAVEN IS GOLDEN
Golden Shovel is a poetry form in which each word of an existing poem becomes the last word of each line of a new poem. It was created by poet Terrance Hayes in honor of Bronzeville’s own Gwendolyn Brooks, based off her classic poem “We Real Cool.” After learning about it at a Young Chicago […]
Posted inLit Issue 2019
The Lit Issue 2019
Once a year, South Side Weekly reserves an entire issue to celebrate all things Lit. Poetry, fiction, essay, even comics are included in the offerings. Submissions pour in from across the city and beyond, with each writer hoping for their work to make the cut. What is the mark of a fine piece of literature […]
Posted inPolitics
Turning Out
lex Boutros believes in the value of voting. As a community organizer for Chicago Votes, she works with young people to get them excited about civic engagement and to show them why voting should matter to them. But when Boutros first arrived in Chicago as an eighteen-year-old, she didn’t vote in the 2015 mayoral election. […]
Posted inArts Issue 2019
Portraits
he South Side, which has a rich history of contributions to the visual arts, has been gaining recognition in recent years for its experimental, emerging, and DIY-style of artists and art making. Often bringing lesser known artists and styles into the fray, these new spaces challenge traditional notions of what a gallery is with their […]
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On the Corner
With the Obama Presidential Center proposed for Jackson Park, the University of Chicago’s continuing development along 61st Street, and a myriad of other projects large and small, residents are asking: what will Woodlawn become? This is the third article in a series investigating the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. Read the first here, […]