he Cook County Criminal Courts system drastically failed to contain the spread of coronavirus or prevent the deaths of people in custody, according to a report released on September 16 by the Coalition to End Money Bond (CEMB)—and now the number of detainees is increasing. Hundreds of detainees and several guards have been infected with […]
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¿Por qué es tan difícil llevar comida a los más necesitados?
Originally published on August 5, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco n una soleada mañana de mayo, decenas de residentes de Chicago —conductores de autobuses, operadores de guarderías, trabajadores de la salud en el hogar, conserjes y jubilados—esperaron, algunos de pie, otros en sus autos, para recibir una despensa de comida en un evento […]
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Parachute journalism is alive and problematic as hell
Parachute journalism is alive and problematic as hell On September 5 the New York Times published a photo essay by Magnum photographer Alec Soth as part of a series on inequality titled “The America We Need.” Soth photographed people and places in two Chicago neighborhoods, Streeterville and Englewood, and to say that Tonika Lewis Johnson […]
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At Project Onward, an Artistic Community Adjusts to COVID-19
ack in February, everyone at Project Onward’s studio shifted from their workstations and huddled for a group meeting to discuss the novel coronavirus possibly appearing in the United States. Then, the details of COVID-19 were highly unknown, but the disability arts organization’s artists and staff tried to address the uncertainty of what might come. Some […]
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The Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder For Some Chicago Residents to Access Clean Water
ince the pandemic began, I Grow Chicago, a West Englewood-based nonprofit, has made more than 4,000 essential deliveries to neighborhood residents. Many of these deliveries, director of development Zelda Mayer explained, are of something residents of other neighborhoods often take for granted: clean drinking water. The COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened disparities between Chicago residents, […]
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From Prison, Rico Clark Fights a Murder Conviction and COVID-19
n September 24, 2006, nineteen-year-old Damion Kendricks was shot and killed in an alley near 76th and Dorchester in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Witnesses said they saw four men with hoodies pulled over their heads running from the scene holding guns, according to police. Only one of the men named by […]
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Pandemic Lessons
t has been more than five months since a stay-at-home order was first issued in Illinois due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Despite limited reopening of parts of the U.S., COVID-19 continues to devastate many communities. The number of deaths has reached more than 180,000 as of August 31, making this the second-most fatal pandemic […]
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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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Chicago’s Climate Apartheid
n August 15, the city saw a glimpse of two possible futures for Chicago. In one, riot police clashed with protesters in the shadow of raised bridges that walled off the Mag Mile. In the other, a coalition of activists mobilized on the South Side to resist environmental injustice and envision a world free from […]
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Op-Ed: The Violence of Displacement Continues Through Illegal Lockouts and Invisible Evictions
n a time of economic and public health crisis when additional tenant protections are desperately needed, it is incredibly frustrating that one of the most essential tenant laws continues to go unenforced. Anti-eviction advocates hope that increased public awareness and pressure around illegal lockouts will force the city’s lawmakers to enforce its municipal code. In […]