Luke White
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Author: Julia Aizuss
In the Middle of It
As its longtime focus on race and inequality becomes central in the national conversation, The Chicago Reporter redefines itself as an online news organization
“Issues around policing, Black Lives Matter, and so many other racial justice movements had erupted through these incredible online conversations,” Richardson recalls. “A lot of the core issues we had reported about were really playing out, and the ideas being spread were clearly via social media. It struck me that, well, we need to think about how we can be in those conversations more aggressively with the type of information and investigative work that we do, and the data.”
Can McKinley Park Become an Art Hub?
The Chicago Urban Art Society seeks to broaden arts accessibility on the Southwest Side
Courtesy of the Chicago Urban Art Society
“A community needs an art space.”
“Everyone knows what I’m talking about, right?”
New reading series The Frunchroom comes to the far South Side
Ellie Mejia
“Frunchroom” is what “front room” sounds like through a thick Chicago accent, Smith explained.
Net Positive
The Salty Prawn brings fresh, sustainably grown shrimp to Chicago
Vanessa Barajas
“This is not a normal system.”
Learn as You Do
“Wxnder Wxrds” at the Hyde Park Art Center
The first word visible was the only instruction necessary. Diagonally down a poster-sized print, in a large, orange, block type that required deciphering, it read learn. The second word, deciphered, felt like a reward for the viewer’s work: focus, and intersecting it like a word in Scrabble, the Spanish: foco. Continue reading
Renewing the Rosenwald
Inside the history of Chicago's oldest new housing development
Archival Photographic Files, Mildred Mead Photographs, [apf-09303], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
The Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments had promise. So Edwin Embree, president of the Rosenwald Fund, predicted in June of 1929, in the Julius Rosenwald Fund’s 1928–1929 Year in Review. Possible complication? The apartment complex had been open barely a month. Continue reading
A Biography in Reverse
“People at Work” at URI-EICHEN
Michael Gaylord James
Michael Gaylord James leans against the window, legs crossed and one black boot perched on the other, the two “Jesus Garcia for Mayor” buttons on his chest standing out against his sensible winter fleeces. His black-and-white reflection in the window seems like it belongs among the photographs lining the wall next to him: an artist at work, seventy or so years old, surveying his output. Continue reading
Humanity, Incarcerated
Maya Schenwar releases Locked Down, Locked Out
Maya Schenwar sat down gingerly. “Can people still see at least the top of my head if I sit down?” she asked. As the audience members in the Seminary Co-op murmured assent, she lifted her chin, peering into the packed crowd that filled every red seat before her and spilled out onto the carpet. Continue reading
Placing the Chicago Imagists in Chicago
Turtle wax!” someone yells. A scraggly mustache twitches while reading aloud ads from Life Magazine. Snippets from a staticky radio intercut the hubbub. “You’re listening to Art and Artists with Harry Bouras—” begins the clipped voice, emanating in jagged lines from the radio. Continue reading