History Archives – South Side Weekly

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

The one-room museum took more than a decade to put together and is working on engaging the Back of the Yards community

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

Growing Up in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects

by Jacqueline Serrato February 25, 2022March 7, 2022

Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation

by Jacqueline Serrato, Charmaine Runes and Pat Sier February 24, 2022February 26, 2022

All Tracks Lead to Pullman

by Helena Duncan October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

Get Into the Struggle: Timuel Black in his Own Words

by Maira Khwaja and South Side Weekly October 27, 2021October 30, 2021

Timuel Black, South Side historian and activist, is dead at 102

by Aaron Gettinger October 13, 2021

CPD and Children. Illustration By: Cam Collins

From Playgrounds to Policing

by Oenone Kubie May 1, 2021May 1, 2021