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.