Best Food Pantry That Does It All Best Spiked ‘Booch Best Local Green Spaces Best Parent Activism ack of the Yards hasn’t historically been known for being a gorgeous residential area or a hub of commerce—rather, it’s famous for its factories, its slaughterhouses, and for the former Union Stockyards that give the neighborhood its name. […]
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A Letter to My Cousins
“To be black was to confront, and to be forced to alter, a condition forged in history. To be white was to be forced to digest a delusion called white supremacy. Indeed, without confronting the history that has either given white people an identity or divested them of it, it is hardly possible for anyone […]
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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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More taxes and fines in 2021
More taxes and fines in 2021 Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on October 21 a property tax hike to balance the $1.2 billion budget deficit worsened by the pandemic—and will tie it to inflation, meaning that property tax bills would go up every year. A study by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas released the same week […]
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Op-Ed: Abolish UofC’s Crime Lab
This piece is part of a series that explores the various perspectives around defunding the police. n the wake of this summer’s rebellion against racist policing, academic institutions across the country have faced scrutiny and activist campaigns surrounding their relationships with police departments. These protests recognize that universities in the neoliberal age are not mere […]
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Impuestos a los ricos para el bien público
Originally published on October 14, 2020, in English Traducido por Irene Romulo a votación ha comenzado en Illinois, donde los votantes decidirán si “sí” o “no” para enmendar la constitución estatal para permitir un impuesto graduado sobre los ingresos. Haría efectiva la legislación propuesta para reemplazar el actual sistema de impuestos con tasa fija por […]
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Broadband on the Ballot
ntil November 3, Chicagoans will vote in the general election on a number of elected offices, in addition to three citywide referenda. One of them asks, “Should the city of Chicago act to ensure that all the city’s community areas have access to broadband internet?” High-quality internet service is an increasingly crucial need amid the […]
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Taxing the Rich for the Public Good
oting is underway in Illinois, with voters deciding “yes” or “no” on whether to amend the state constitution to allow a graduated income tax. It would make effective proposed legislation to replace the current flat-rate tax system with graduated rates. For twenty years, María Guadalupe Acevedo has lived in Gage Park on Chicago’s Southwest Side. […]
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Yes, prisoners deserve a stimulus check
Yes, prisoners deserve a stimulus check Despite misleading messaging from the IRS, the deadline for jail and prison inmates to file for a stimulus check via a paper application is now October 30 after advocates found that the fine print in the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act does not exclude incarcerated people. […]
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The Show Must Flow On
“here’s this hand-drawn piece of art,” said Dr. Marcus Robinson when asked to summarize his year. “Probably with a black Magic Marker on white paper. It’s Bruce Lee doing a Bruce Lee kick, but the caption is ‘Remember to flow like water.’ ” It’s a motto applicable to many aspects of life in 2020, but […]