History Archives – South Side Weekly

Traqueros de Chicago: Museum Exhibit Takes Mexican Labor History Out of the Shadows

by Jacqueline Serrato March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

The exhibit highlights early railworkers and boxcar camps that formed on the South Side in the 1900s.

South Side Tours Delivers History on the Move

by Dierdre Robinson February 12, 2026February 12, 2026

Film

Life on the South Side Immortalized in Home Movies

by Dierdre Robinson March 20, 2024April 13, 2024

Bussing as a Political Pawn: The Reverse Freedom Rides

by Jesús Flores December 3, 2023December 3, 2023

Black Jewel of the Midwest

by Kit Ginzky July 27, 2023July 28, 2023

Reclaiming Community as a Bosnian Refugee on Chicago’s South Side

by Ermina Veljačić July 18, 2023July 21, 2023

At the Packingtown Museum, Discover Yesterday’s Stockyards, Today’s Back of the Yards and the Future of Food

by Maureen Kelleher June 2, 2023June 2, 2023

Tracing the Black Panther Footprint

by Jacqueline Serrato November 30, 2022December 2, 2022

The South Suburbs’s Little Known Underground Railroad

by Dierdre Robinson March 13, 2022April 30, 2022

How the Chicago Freedom Movement Made Way for the Fair Housing Act

by Igli Velcani March 4, 2022March 4, 2022