South Side Weekly is gauging interest in a town hall event where residents can share how theyâve been affected by a lack of reliable internet access. If you are interested in attending the town hall or discussing it with the Weekly, please contact NaBeela Washington at beelawashington@gmail.com or (312) 547-1088âŹ, or fill out the form […]
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Fear and Disconnection Mask Common Interests Among Asian and Black Communities
oom Sing Tse, a seventy-one-year-old grandfather was shot twenty-two times in broad daylight outside Haines Elementary School in Chinatown as he was crossing the street on December 7. The suspect, Alphonso Joyner, twenty-three, was charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail. Though the police commander found no motivating cause for what the […]
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Chicagoâs Back-to-School Mess
ith a fifth wave of COVID picking up steam during the holiday break due to the Omicron variant, a significant number of Chicago Public School (CPS) parents were reluctant to send their children back to the classroom even before school resumed January 3. So far, the new year at school has been short-lived. After the […]
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Reframing the Conversation Around Gun Violence
e should be talking about gun violence as a public health issueâbut not treat it like weâve done with COVID-19,â said Kam Buckner, Illinois State Representative for the 26th District, referring to the Trump administration’s early, bungled handling of the pandemic. In a clean, well-lit room in the University of Chicagoâs Center for Identity + […]
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Best of Morgan Park 2021
Best Stroll Into the Past Best Spot for Cheetos, Milk, and Chit-chat Best Roots Festival Best LGBTQ+ Network Best Community-Oriented Church Best Community Garden Comeback n 1886 pamphlet enticing would-be homeowners describes Morgan Park as a destination with âhigh and rolling characterâ a âmere stepâ on the suburban Rock Island line from the âbustling martâ […]
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Op-Ed: Lightfoot Has Failed Us on an Elected School Board
tanding with hundreds of other Chicagoans outside of Mayor Lori Lightfootâs home on May 20, her two-year anniversary as mayor, it occurred to me that we shouldn’t have had to be there. Lightfoot told us she would do right by thousands of disenfranchised people whose needs have been disregarded by this City. She told us […]
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Anti-Asian Violence Stirs Conversation on Policing and Abolition in Chicagoâs AAPI CommunitiesÂ
Editorâs note: This story uses Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) to refer to the community being reported, recognizing that the community includes a diverse range of ethnicities and identities. Sources may refer to particular or collective groups as âpeople of Asian descentâ or âAsian Americans,â in which cases we maintain the original language from […]
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Special Ed Students Are Left Behind During COVID
or Arvel Wynn, getting his son, Elijah, the special education services he needs during remote learning has been a struggle. Elijah is a fourth grader at Mollison Elementary in Bronzeville. Like most parents in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Wynn didnât know what to expect for his son after schools closed last March due to the […]
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Local School Council Elections Were Faced with Challenges That Undermine the Legitimacy of the Process
udges were a no-show. Ballots were thrown out. Voters were turned away. These were just some of the problems in the election of one of the countryâs largest democratic governing bodies: Chicago Public Schools’ Local School Councils (LSCs). You mightâve heard of them when they were shoved into the spotlight this past summer, as pressure […]
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South Side Stakeholders Unite as Task Force to Fight Opioid Epidemic
ith Chicago Department of Public Health guidance, South Side stakeholdersâfrom politicians to substance abuse disorder treatment professionalsâare in the process of uniting formally as the South Side Opioid and Heroin Task Force later this year to combat rampant opioid use. The task forceâs objective will be to reduce opioid-related overdoses and addiction on the South […]