Last month, Alex Acevedo came in second of the five candidates vying to replace disgraced 25th Ward Alderman Danny SolĂs. Providing a more conservative, homeowner-focused foil to his runoff companion Byron Sigcho-Lopezâs DSA-endorsed platform, Acevedo often reminds voters of his work as a nurse and with a neighborhood watch group. Acevedoâs homeowner-focused platform is rooted […]
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Piece By Piece
n 1971, civil rights lawyer Anna Langford became the first Black woman to serve in Chicagoâs City Council. An independent, she was elected to represent the 16th Ward, which at the time encompassed much of Englewood, roughly spanning from Stewart over to Ashland, and Garfield down to Marquette. Langford frequently clashed with Mayor Richard J. […]
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A Chinatown Civics Lesson
he evening of January 28 was cold and snowy, but around 150 people made their way up four flights of stairs to the grand auditorium in the Pui Tak Center in Chinatown for a 25th Ward aldermanic forum. The center serves as one of the hubs of the community, hosting English and computer classes, services […]
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A Palace for the People
This story was a finalist for the 2019 “Best Arts Reporting and Criticism” in a non-daily newspaper or magazine Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club oasting four tall towers, each topped by an American flag and flanked by well-groomed flower beds, the South Shore Cultural Center drips of stateliness. Inside there is no […]
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South Side Elections: Ward By Ward
3rd Ward (Bronzeville, South Loop, Washington Park, Englewood) 4th Ward (Bronzeville, South Loop, Hyde Park) 5th Ward (Hyde Park, South Shore, Woodlawn, Grand Crossing) 6th Ward (Chatham, Park Manor, Englewood) 7th Ward (South Shore, South Chicago, Jeffery Manor) 8th Ward (Avalon Park, Calumet Heights, Burnside) 9th Ward (Pullman, Roseland, Riverdale) 10th Ward (East Side, South […]
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Learning to ProgramâSwiftly
ast year, City Colleges of Chicago partnered with Apple to offer coding âbootcampsââcrash courses in computer programming designed to get students up to speed and connect them with jobs in the software industry. The pilot program, which was free and ran from April to September, was to test how a bootcamp-like course would work in […]
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Notes & Calendar 5/15/18
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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Notes & Calendar 5/9/18
Notes Long Sentences Are Loophole Life Sentences Six years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that life sentences without parole for crimes committed by juveniles violate the U.S. Constitution; a subsequent case made the ruling retroactive. But an Injustice Watch review found that in Illinois prisons, there are more than 160 people serving fifty years […]
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Notes & Calendar 4/25/18
A weekâs worth of developing stories, events, and signs of the times, culled from the desks, inboxes, and wandering eyes of the editors Notes CLEAR as Mud The Chicago Police Department wants you to know that they’re not just meatheads: they can sink money into algorithms and data, too. Last year, the department released data […]
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Communities Respond to School Closings
In 2013, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) closed fifty public schools largely on the South and West Sidesâthe largest school closing in a single city in American history. Four months before, trying to head off the public backlash that quickly followed regardless, the district self-imposed a five-year moratorium on school closings. That moratorium lifted this year […]