rom their arrival in 1849 until George M. Pullman began to build his utopian Town of Pullman in 1880, the Dutch settled the Lake Calumet Region. To this day, these early settlers have left their impression on the area, and vice versa: an exhibit on Roseland is currently on display at the Eenigenburg Museum in […]
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Posted inBest of the South Side 2015, Englewood
Best of Englewood 2015
y family was the third African-American family that moved into the community. I did experience the change, I did experience some of the racism that I endured as I was brought up in Englewood. I graduated from Henderson School in 1979, and I went to Gage Park High School, and youâve probably heard about the […]
Posted inBest of the South Side 2015, Bronzeville
Best of Bronzeville 2015
illions of African-American migrants came to Chicago, and their descendants carry the pride of Bronzeville. There is no other place in the world like Bronzeville. Within a five-mile radius you can find historical sites of interest that chronicle the explosion of gospel, blues, jazz, abolitionism and grassroots civil rights activism. Bronzevilleâs history spans from the […]
Posted inInterviews
Back of the House
“It’s the only way I know how to make a living. Selling hot dogs.”
Posted inFeatures, Housing
A Hole in the World
Homelessness, says Angelica, a twenty-two-year-old regular at the Teen Living Programs homeless youth drop-in center, is almost universally misunderstood.
Posted inActivism, Notes, Police
For Mike Brown
Had Michael Brown survived the summer, Monday, November 24, would have been a calm, snowy night. It wasn’t. It was a night on which the people of Chicago gathered in solidarity with the people of Ferguson, and made clear that a fundamental problem demands radical justice.
Posted inFeatures, Stage & Screen, Visual Arts
Slow Burn
The engineer with the lost headlamp slipped as a shower of cinders, a flaming plank, caved out right before him. One leg dipped into the river. He laid there a moment, straddled half-off the pontoon.
âWeâre having some electrical difficulties.â
Posted inCrafts, Hyde Park
Cut From a Different Cloth
Cindy Pardoâs atticâbrimming with textile squares, sewing equipment, and pattern swatchesâis the mark of an intimate, lifelong relationship with fabric.
Posted inBronzeville, Education
One Year On
Another spring day begins at Bronzevilleâs Mollison Elementary School. Two blocks away, a seventh grader yanks at the arm of his little sister. Sheâs insisting on picking a palmful of yellow flowers for a friendâs birthday, but her brother knows the consequences for arriving after nine oâclock. They scurry in, just in time.
Posted inEnvironment, Far Southeast Side
Byproduct Blues
Spring finally came to Chicago about a month ago, turning the lake from gray to blue and exposing endless lawns of dead grass.