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  Bulletin “What’s the Future of the Midwest?” Chicago Innovation Exchange, 1452 E. 53rd St. Wednesday, June 3, 5:30pm-8pm. Free. cie.uchicago.edu. What made the Twinkie an all-American staple? And the Robie House a landmark? Guests from design firm IDEO will delve into the Midwest’s history of industrial design, attempting to parse what makes the country’s […]

Bulletin SBAC Hyde Park Happy Hour This Wednesday, the Small Business Advocacy Council (SBAC) and Business Spotlight Networking (BSN) will host alliteratively-named Hyde Park Happy Hour at the Hyatt Place. The event will both be an opportunity to network and a chance for business owners from the South Side to answer questions about how to […]

Bulletin Inventing the New American House Howard Van Doren Shaw designed some of Chicago’s most prestigious housing in the then-trendy Arts and Crafts style just as the young city was beginning to mature at the turn of the twentieth century. He built houses in Hyde Park and then the Gold Coast, and helped establish the […]

Bulletin First Mayoral Runoff Debate Rahm Emanuel’s failure to acquire a majority last Tuesday launches him and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia into an unprecedented runoff campaign. Between February 24 and April 7, Garcia and Emanuel will have to compete for the many Chicago voters—about one in five—who opted for neither of them in the first election. […]

Bulletin Poll Watching Training for the Chicago Municipal Elections Dr. Lora Chamberlain will provide free poll watching training Wednesday, February 4 at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, helping those who wish to volunteer at the polls during municipal elections on February 24. Dr. Chamberlain, known in part for her anti-fracking advocacy, has helped watch […]

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 […]

BULLETIN 11th Ward TIF Illumination In Chicago, over $400 million of real estate taxes are redirected to tax increment financing (TIF), a method of funding development projects that is commonly used across the city. The pitch for TIF goes like this: once a TIF district’s property tax revenues exceed a certain limit, the revenue over […]

BULLETIN Starting with this issue, the Weekly will use this space to highlight political and civic events happening across the South Side. City on the Make Professor of American History and Culture at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Andrew Diamond tours the South Side with a series of lectures and panel discussions at the UofC and […]