Notes Wasted Schooling on Manganese Last Thursday, Far Southeast Side residents filled up a union hall to discuss the manganese pollution emitted by local industry. To begin, representatives from city and federal agencies explained that soil samples taken in the neighborhood earlier this year showed worryingly high levels of the potentially neurotoxic element. Afterward, residents […]
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Who’s Running for Governor of Illinois?
Republican Candidates In the Republican gubernatorial primary, the âInsurgentâ vs the âR.I.N.O.â While Chicago is rightly understood to be a Democratic stronghold, Republicans live and vote here as well. In the profiles below, the Weekly explores the platforms of the two Republican candidates for governor, incumbent Governor Bruce Rauner and three-term state Representative Jeanne Ives. […]
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Notes & Calendar 3/7/18
A weekâs worth of developing stories, events, and signs of the times, culled from the desks, inboxes, and wandering eyes of the editors Notes We Ask Once More: Will Willie Wilson Win? The rumor that has been circulating for monthsâWillie Wilson would throw his hat back into the mayoral ringâwas confirmed late February. Wilson was around […]
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Notes & Calendar 6/7/17
A weekâs worth of developing stories, events, and signs of the times, culled from the desks, inboxes, and wandering eyes of the editors Notes Everyone Knows Divvy Isnât for Everyone, Yet If you caught last weekâs piece, âWhen Will Divvy Be For Everyone?â, or last yearâs analysis of Divvy data, then you already know that Divvy […]
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Know Your Rights
n August 5, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided a gas station on Belmont and Milwaukee Avenues that has long been a hiring site for day laborers (jornaleros) in Chicago. A group of workersâmost of whom specialize in construction and landscapingâgathered that morning, as they do every day. They waited for employers who regularly […]
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Calendar 10/26/16
BULLETIN Pumpkin Carving with MAKE! Chicago MAKE! Chicago, 1048 W. 37th St. Friday, October 28, 6pmâ9pm; Saturday, October 29, 11amâ2pm and 2pmâ5pm. $25 for one adult and child. Register online before October 27. (312) 925-2627. make-chicago.com Jack up your jack-o-lantern skills with a pumpkin carving class at MAKE! Chicago. The Bridgeport woodworking shop transforms into […]
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A Broken Shield
eanne Bishop believes her profession is a vocation. After her pregnant sister and her brother-in-law were killed, she wrote a book about her path to forgiving her familyâs murderer. Then she became a public defender in Cook County, representing those charged with lesser or even similar crimes. Of all the legal professions, the public defender […]
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Calendar for January 14, 2015
BULLETIN Redistricting, Voting Rights, and Community Power The districts for Illinois’s legislature stretch and contort themselves: the long arm of State Senate District 17, for instance, reaches from farmland in Kankakee County to the South Side of Chicago. The divisions are set in a closed process and frankly a political one, given that the political […]
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Calendar for January 7, 2015
BULLETIN 4th, 5th Ward Aldermanic Candidate Forum Given the past four years of polarizing mayoral administration marked by clashes over neighborhood schools, policing, and other issues, the South Side incumbent alderman should be an endangered species. That hypothesis will be put to the test this Saturday at a forum hosted by the Hyde Park-Kenwood Coalition […]
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Open House Chicago
We set out to explore a cross-section of churches to see what they reveal about the history of neighborhood change on our side of the city.