othing in the facade of the fire station at the intersection of 55th and University Avenue betrays the location, underneath the firehouse, of a Cold Warâera bomb shelter. All functioning bomb shelters are alike, but each decommissioned shelter was decommissioned in its own way. This one turned into a gym. You can access it via […]
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Posted inHoliday Issue 2017
Holiday Histories
s December comes around again, many people put up a Christmas tree, go to White Castle, and watch terrible television. Yet most people have unique traditions that make the holidays special as well. The Weekly caught up with a few South Siders this week to find out what makes the holidays special for them. As […]
Posted inPolitics
On the Ground
hen we fight, we win. So, letâs go and fight!â said Doug Bishop, opening an October meeting of Indivisible South Side at the First Unitarian Church of Chicago. He was followed by a presentation by Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) on the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the Obama Presidential Center, reports from Indivisibleâs […]
Posted inActivism, Features, Mount Greenwood, Police, Politics
Life, and a Death, in Mount Greenwood
This story was a finalist for the 2017 “Best in-depth Reporting in a Community Newspaper” Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club he heart of Mount Greenwood, where I grew up, is 111th Street. The neighborhoodâs Irish Catholic pride beams through the shamrocks and Irish flags painted on the front doors of bars on almost […]
Posted inBest of the South Side 2016, Far Southeast Side
Best of the Far Southeast Side 2016
⢠Best Ecological Redemption & Place to Take Your Bike ⢠Best Burial Site of a Waterloo Veteran ⢠Best Historical Society ⢠Best Way to Spend a Long Weekend ow has the neighborhood changed since the steel mills closed? Well, I suppose the first thing you need to do is look at what […]
Posted inArcher Heights, Best of the South Side 2016, Brighton Park
Best of Brighton Park & Archer Heights 2016
â˘Â Best Billy Goat For Your Buck â˘Â Best Monkey Business â˘Â Best School Singing Session â˘Â Best Home Away From Home â˘Â Best Definitely Legal Cannabis Products righton Park changed dramatically in the 1990sâin the late 1990s and early 2000s the neighborhood became a gateway community. We saw a big increase in the number of foreign-born peopleâpredominantly Latino […]
Posted inBack of the Yards, Best of the South Side 2016
Best of Back of the Yards 2016
â˘Â Best Scents â˘Â Best Paletas â˘Â Best Chinese Food â˘Â Best Pie Filling Material â˘Â Best Can of Worms ong before I moved to Back of the Yards, I was familiar with the neighborhoodâs history as Chicagoâs meatpacking district. In high school, I was introduced to Carl Sandburgâs poetry, in which the neighborhood earned Chicago the title of […]
Posted inAuburn Gresham, Best of the South Side 2016
Best of Auburn Gresham 2016
â˘Â Best Restaurant â˘Â Best End-Of-Summer Block Party â˘Â Best Art You Can Step On â˘Â Best Reuse of a Historic Theater e moved over here in 1975, and at that point the neighborhood was changing racially. It was a lot of people that you didnât even know they were moving. The Caucasiansâthere were just trucks that […]
Posted inBest of the South Side 2015, Chinatown
Best of Chinatown 2015
he Goldilocks of American Chinatowns, Chicagoâs Chinatown is not the biggest in the country, nor is it the smallest. Here, new and old blend togetherâold village dialects arenât heard quite as frequently as Cantonese and Mandarin, but survive nonetheless. Historic buildings like the Pui Tak center stand shoulder to shoulder with new restaurants and bustling […]
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Activism | Police We Charge Genocide Activists allege torture in a report to the U.N. by Hannah Nyhart Dominique Franklin, âDamoâ to friends, was twenty-three-years-old when he died. He spent the last two weeks of his life in a coma at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being tased multiple times by a Chicago police officer. Witnesses, […]