A Palace for the People
South Shore residents continue a long fight to make the South Shore Cultural Center a space for community arts
The Meter of the Blues
With the Oscar Brown Jr. Archive Project, artists Maggie and Africa Brown have finally come home
The Fight to Remain
A new affordable housing complex at 63rd and Cottage Grove has Woodlawn’s low-income residents wondering about their place in the neighborhood
An American Suburb, 2018
Stories and photos from Dolton, Illinois
Do You Know Margaret Burroughs?
A symposium on art in Chicago and a Margaret Burroughs exhibition explore and celebrate the South Side’s contribution to art
The Overlooked Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Michelle Duster, Eve Ewing, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Natalie Moore discussed the journalist and civil rights activist’s life and legacy
Where Are You Going, Woodlawn?
At a community celebration, residents and visitors consider the neighborhood’s next chapter
Bones of the City
A Chicago archaeologist makes the case for digging up the past
Digging Up the Past
After a new archaeological discovery at IIT, a spat over the school’s history of displacement emerges
Charting a Course
A new history examines the long-overlooked life and work of trailblazing academic Allison Davis