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Posted inHousing

For Hilliard Towers Tenants, ‘Numbers is Power’

by Emeline Posner November 21, 2023December 1, 2023

ome days, the roaches are so bad in Nicole Rappaport’s unit that her daughters are scared to get out of bed during the night. Her sons go around stomping them, she says.   Over the last several years, Rappaport says, conditions in the Hilliard Homes building she lives in have gone downhill. It’s not just roaches […]

Posted inBest of the South Side 2021

Best of South Loop 2021

by Chima Ikoro September 17, 2021September 18, 2021
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Posted inActivism

Local School Council Elections Were Faced with Challenges That Undermine the Legitimacy of the Process

by Kelly Garcia December 30, 2020January 20, 2021
Posted inActivism

Struck from the Record

by Elliot Frank December 9, 2020December 16, 2020
Posted inActivism

Head vs. Heart

by Malik Jackson December 9, 2020February 1, 2021
Taurus Flavors. Illustration Credit: Lily Cozzens
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Best of the South Side In Memoriam 2020

by Dixon Galvez-Searle, Rovetta McKinney, Sam Stecklow, AV Benford, Francesca Mathewes, Rob Bitunjac, Jacqueline Serrato and Francisco Ramírez Pinedo November 27, 2020November 29, 2020
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Posted inBest of the South Side, Best of the South Side 2020, Latest, Nature, Neighbors, Oral History, Parks, South Loop, Transportation

Best of the South Loop 2020

by Jasmine Mithani November 27, 2020November 28, 2020
Posted incoronavirus/COVID-19

Prayer in a Pandemic

by Madeleine Parrish May 27, 2020June 10, 2020
Posted inEn español

¿Qué pasa en los distritos? La respuesta de los concejales al coronavirus

by Martha Bayne, Jim Daley, Jacqueline Serrato, Sam Stecklow and Christian Belanger May 8, 2020September 21, 2020
Posted inAuburn Gresham

What’s Happening in the Wards? Aldermanic Response to COVID-19

by Martha Bayne, Jim Daley, Jacqueline Serrato, Sam Stecklow and Christian Belanger April 28, 2020May 15, 2020

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