Renaissance Park (J. Michael Eugenio)
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Best Pile of Rocks
Best of Ashburn & Auburn Gresham 2018
Auburn Gresham
Best of Auburn Gresham 2017
Ian Grant-Funck
Like many South Side communities, Auburn Gresham faced years of disinvestment. At the time, Auburn Gresham housing stock stayed strong (especially compared to surrounding neighborhoods), but the key commercial areas were hard hit. Now on 79th and on Ashland—two major commercial districts—there are several vacant buildings and empty lots. These eyesores detract from the neighborhood and prevent further investment.
Best of Auburn Gresham 2016
Kiran Misra
Reinvesting in Our Communities
Black-owned small businesses continue to face challenges on the South Side
Karen Ford
This legal discrimination coupled with redlining by banks has worked to keep Blacks in economically depressed neighborhoods.
Best of Auburn Gresham 2015
I’ve lived in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on and off for about twenty years. Originally, I moved into the westernmost part while going through a divorce. It is a neighborhood of large courtyard apartment buildings and single-family homes. The shops along West 79th Street and along Ashland Avenue guaranteed I had no need to leave my community for anything. Public transportation is a 24/7 convenience, so not having a car wasn’t a problem.
Revisiting Auburn Park
Parks, plats, and the shape of the South Side
Javier Suarez
On a map, Auburn Park appears as an unexpected departure from the city grid, its thin fingerlike lagoons passing under two narrow bridges on Normal and Eggleston Avenues.
Auburn Gresham & Greater Grand Crossing
CAMDEN BAUCHNER
You can feel the pulse of the community best on a summer night along 79th Street. The sky is pink and perfect, wispy with clouds, while cicadas mingle with the rumble of traffic. People are driving home from work down Racine and Halsted. On Loomis and Parnell children are playing before dinner. From the grey monolith of St. Sabina Church the strains of an organ pour out in waves. Singing rattles the slightly open windows. Continue reading
Weaver of Faith
Khaleelah Dionne Muhammad on community, Chicago violence, and a bigger concept of faith
ALLISON TOREM
A lawyer by education and a Christian by birth, Khaleelah, forty-two, now works in community development and is a practicing Muslim. Continue reading
For the Record
One woman's struggle leads to a referendum in Auburn Gresham
Buried within the fifty-three-page March 18 Chicago primary sheet lies a seemingly innocuous referendum on court recording. Continue reading
At the Pulpit
Cornel West speaks at St. Sabina's
Cornel West. MAGGIE SIVIT
As musicians tuned their saxophones and violins, the Sunday morning service at St. Sabina’s, on 78th and Racine, began with an announcement: “If you want to get married at St. Sabina, you must attend our seminar, ‘Becoming One.'” Continue reading