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 country’s largest democratic governing bodies: Chicago Public Schools’ Local School Councils (LSCs). You might’ve 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 stakeholders—from politicians to substance abuse disorder treatment professionals—are 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 force’s objective will be to reduce opioid-related overdoses and addiction on the South […]
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Best of North Lawndale 2020
Best Multitasking Landmark Best Long-Running Arts Retreat and Community Group Best Neighborhood Cultivators of Green Space Best Student Park Anti-Racism Advocacy Best Retirement Best Art-Based Rebranding Initiative Best Pandemic Isolation Buster Best Urban Farm and Tasty Lunch any residents of the North Lawndale community area don’t call it that. To them, it’s simply Lawndale, the […]
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Best of Chinatown 2020
Best Cross-Town Unity March Best Essential Delivery Service Best Pandemic Unemployment Hotline in a Chicago Landmark Best Class for Learning to Talk to Family Members Best Food Drive for Building Solidarity In Memoriam: Chinese-language newspapers serving Chinatown Anita Gist-Jones’s family has called Archer Court home for three generations. She served on the Local School Council […]
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Following the Yellowlined Road
n December 1939, yellow ink flooded Chicago’s Southwest Side. Frank Reidy, my paternal grandfather, and his neighbors never saw it coming. At the time, the twenty-four-year-old man was living with his Irish-immigrant parents at 64th Street and Maplewood Avenue in the Marquette Manor section of Chicago Lawn. Each weekday, Frank, short in stature with a […]
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Op-Ed: Stop Treating the Southeast Side as Disposable
This piece is part of a series that explores the various perspectives around defunding the police. The Southeast Side community on the Calumet River has historically been an industrial corridor. The longtime home of the old steel mills has recently become the city’s designated dumping zone, and residents struggle with exposure to petcoke, manganese, and […]
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Dr. Whirlwind: Poet, Editor, and Educator Dr. Tara Betts Speaks Her Truth
It is lonesome, yes. For we are the last of the loud. Nevertheless, live. Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind. –Gwendolyn Brooks r. Tara Betts has one of the most enviable heads of hair of any living writer. Her crown is streaked with ferocious shocks of brilliant white. For […]
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“SLAYSIAN,” an Art Show at Home
n her years on the Chicago art scene, curator Jenny Lam had never seen a large-scale exhibit that focused on local Asian American art. “So I figured I should be the one to do it,” she said. After putting out an open call to Chicago and the surrounding Midwest, Lam chose thirty-nine Asian American artists […]
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COVID-19 South Side Community Resource Guide
Like organizations across the city, the Weekly is working hard to adapt to the swiftly changing conditions of life during the COVID-19 pandemic and to use our platform in a way that best serves our readers. Our print edition will likely be suspended, but we will be publishing stories online on a rolling basis for […]
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South Side Election Guide
3rd U.S. House District Activist Rush Darwish Mechanic Charles Hughes U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski Nonprofit executive Marie Newman Second time’s the charm? After coming within 2,500 votes of incumbent U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski in 2018, Marie Newman, a former small business owner and nonprofit executive, is trying once again to win over the Democratic primary […]