I’m in a Hyde Park Starbucks, hunched over the laptop of game developer Rob Lockhart, trying hard to read the world as computer code.
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Posted inActivism, Features, Health care
Lost Contact
fter he graduated from high school, Calvin McCloud began to fall apart.
Posted inBronzeville, Features, Urban planning
Recreating the Rosenwald
tâs fine if the grandparents move in with their kids. Itâs when little girls and their baby daddies start to move in that thereâs going to be trouble.â Church, a local newspaper vendor, was talking about the Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, better known as the Rosenwald.
Posted inActivism, Bronzeville, Education, Features
Grass Roots
A community mobilizes to keep a Bronzeville high school open
Posted inChatham, Food
Come for the Coffee
âWe are into the cafĂ© lifestyle,â Zuli said. âWe provide a healthy alternative to what is currently found in Chatham. We donât really compete with anyone elseâwe donât sell potato chips, candy, soda….One of our missions is to enrich the community, not to take out withdrawals and make no deposits.”
Posted inFeatures, Pilsen, Visual Arts
Printed Matters
ust north of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is an ashen, defunct funeral parlor. At Oakley and 24th, the nineteenth-century, two-story buildingâstill marked by a sign for âWest Town Funeral Homeââis simple but striking, its stone exterior split by skinny lancet windows.
Posted inAuburn Gresham, Features
79th Street Shogun
t 79th Street Video, a video rental store purported to be the home of Chicagoâs largest selection of martial arts movies, founder and owner Russ Pine pulls the movie âShogun Assassinâ out from the shelves. He slams it onto the counter and beams. He says that the film, which features a child in a bulletproof […]
Posted inEducation, Hyde Park, Politics
Common Concerns
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan liberally sprinkles his points with sports metaphors. Itâs his way, it seems, of constantly alluding to where he started, right here in Hyde Park, playing basketball with local kids when he wasnât in class at the Lab School or helping at his motherâs afterschool program. Phrases like âgetting in the gameâ and âleveling […]
Posted inFeatures, Politics, Pullman
Company Town
n 1893, one Mrs. Duane Doty, a Pullman resident, penned a slim volume titled âThe Story of Pullman.â âThe history of civilization exhibits a steady growth and progress in the masses of the human race to higher levels,â she wrote. âIn showing to the world that the interests of capital can be amply provided for while […]