Siena Fite
赋一个分裂的华埠
特别服务区在不断改变的华埠的拟定设立加剧了社区内部的龃龉
Features
The Battle Against Money Bonds
How recent organizing movements bring Cook County closer to a world without cash bail
Lizzie Smith
The second in a series on pretrial detention
Taxing a Divided Chinatown
A proposed Special Service Area exacerbates rifts in the changing neighborhood
Siena Fite
Who Pulls the Strings on the PLUC?
Pilsen’s Land Use Committee draws heat for cozy relationship with its alderman
Ellen Hao
They don’t want to give agendas to the community. They don’t want to give us anything,” reflected Anderson Chávez, a youth organizer with the Pilsen Alliance. The “they” Chávez was referring to is the Pilsen Land Use Committee (PLUC), an advisory committee set up by Alderman Daniel Solis (25th) to advise him on large-scale developments seeking a home in Pilsen. PLUC is intended to represent the community voice in decision making and uphold an only-in-Pilsen mandate of twenty-one percent affordable housing in all new developments over eight units. The committee is comprised of executives from four local nonprofits: The Resurrection Project, Alivio Medical Center, Eighteenth Street Development Corporation, and the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council.
A History of Bail Reform
A medieval pay-your-way system may be on its way out
Natalie González
The first in a series on pretrial detention
Sensing the City
With the Array of Things program, environmental inequity meets urban technology
Mano a Mano
Inside Chicago’s Latinx relief efforts
Natalie González
Chicago may sit more than 2,000 miles away from San Juan and over 1,500 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, but the connections between Chicago, Puerto Rico, and Mexico run far deeper than geography would suggest. The city is bound to these regions by the heritage of over one million of its residents—there are over 900,000 people of Mexican descent and over 100,000 people of Puerto Rican descent living in Cook County—and by neighborhoods such as Pilsen, Little Village, and Humboldt Park that form Chicago’s ethnic and cultural mosaic.
The Shots Heard Round the City
Are Chicago’s new shot detection and predictive policing technologies worth it?
Ellen Hao
A gunshot is fired. Depending on where in the city it is, the sound might not just be picked up by human ears. By early next year, almost 130 square miles of Chicago will be monitored for gunshots by mechanical ears as well, via a technology called ShotSpotter.
ParkWorks May Not Work for Pilsen
The battle over Pilsen’s most contentious vacant lot
Jason Schumer
An empty parcel of land in eastern Pilsen, sitting between Metra and freight tracks and 18th Street, draws little attention to itself—but for some residents, the site has become a battleground for the future of the neighborhood. The luxury developer that owns the land, Property Markets Group (PMG), recently announced big plans for a 465-unit apartment complex on the site called “ParkWorks.”
Who Gets to Keep the Gates?
Two aldermen claim to seek to transform parts of South Shore and Bridgeport through zoning, with mixed results
71st Street in South Shore (Denise Naim)
Murmurs and greetings circulated through the wood-paneled meeting room of Bryn Mawr Community Church as one hundred South Shore residents settled in for the monthly 5th Ward meeting on May 23.