This rally came about a week after the end of the hunger strike, a month-long endeavor where fifteen protestors drank only liquids and some suffered hospitalizations.
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Best of Little Village & Lawndale 2015
ittle Village, bordering Pilsen, North Lawndale, and Cicero, is a neighborhood that comes with many a mythology, from the first port of call for many immigrants from Mexico and Central America to the oft-mentioned economic powerhouse that is 26th Street, with its blocks and blocks of quinceañera dress stores and botanicos. We interviewed some Chicagoans […]
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Calendar for June 3rd, 2015
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 […]
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Calendar for May 20th, 2015
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 […]
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Calendar for April 28th, 2015
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 […]
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Calendar for March 4, 2015
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. […]
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Bankrolling in the 5th
Since the start of calendar year 2014, unions have contributed more than $50,000 to Hairston’s PAC, enough to compensate for her lack of access to the funding of Mayor Emanuel’s Chicago Forward PAC—a super PAC aimed at supporting the administration’s most loyal aldermen.
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Calendar for February 4, 2015
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 […]
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A Hole in the World
Homelessness, says Angelica, a twenty-two-year-old regular at the Teen Living Programs homeless youth drop-in center, is almost universally misunderstood.
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Calendar for January 14, 2015
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 […]