BTTM FDRS, written by Ezra Claytan Daniels and illustrated by Ben Passmore, an Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel published by Fantagraphics in 2019, was named one of the best books of 2019 by the Chicago Public Library. It unfolds in the fictional South Side neighborhood of Bottomyards, where gentrification and cultural appropriation encroach and mingle with […]
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No Vacancy? CHA may have empty units. Why can’t supply meet demand?
early four months into the COVID-19 crisis, the network of shelters, isolation centers, and hotels that the city and organizations have put together to care for people experiencing homelessness has been relatively successful—though many shelter residents have contracted the virus, no one is known to have died from it. But the situation remains precarious. As […]
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Census Spotlight
hen Jenné Myers and her staff developed a Census outreach plan earlier this year, they envisioned volunteers engaging people one-on-one at CTA stops, grocery stores, barbershops, schools, and other locations on the South and West Sides. Myers, the CEO of Chicago Cares, a nonprofit that connects people with volunteer opportunities, said that the goal was […]
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Power and Healing in the Face of COVID-19: ADOS- and Black-led organizations discuss how they’re lifting up their communities
n independent conversations regarding the impact of COVID-19 in Chicago’s Black communities, representatives of Black Women Organizing for Power (BWOP), Getting Grown Collective, and Ujimaa Medics discussed their reactions and responses to the global pandemic. COVID-19 infection rates are significantly higher in the Black community, and Black Chicagoans made up seventy out of the first […]
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Administradores de hospitales comparten sus puntos de vista sobre la atención médica en el suroeste de Chicago durante COVID-19
Originally published on May 27, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco i ves un mapa de los casos confirmados de coronavirus en Chicago, claramente el suroeste está sufriendo. Barrios como Pilsen, Brighton Park, La Villita y Las Empacadoras, están señalados en color oscuro. En el sur de ciudad, tanto las tasas de casos, como […]
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As the City Reopens, Mental Health Clinics Keep Services at a Distance
n March, when the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools and businesses across Chicago, the city’s public mental health clinics also reduced walk-in services wherever possible and largely switched to providing therapy remotely via telephone or video conference. At a press conference on June 22 announcing how Chicago may move to phase four of reopening from […]
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Sitting Ducks: ‘Leaving People in the Jail Is Leaving People to Die’
fter significant reductions in the Cook County Jail population, which reached a record low of 4,026 at the height of the pandemic, the number of people in jail is once again on the rise after the protests and arrests of the last few weeks. Currently, 4,524 people are awaiting trial or serving out sentences in […]
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“SLAYSIAN,” an Art Show at Home
n her years on the Chicago art scene, curator Jenny Lam had never seen a large-scale exhibit that focused on local Asian American art. “So I figured I should be the one to do it,” she said. After putting out an open call to Chicago and the surrounding Midwest, Lam chose thirty-nine Asian American artists […]
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Más allá de los festivales
Originally published on May 12, 2020, in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco ientras que la mayoría de las decisiones del mundo se toman en torres universitarias y cámaras de gobierno, los impactos del COVID-19 se ven y se sienten en nuestros ambientes cotidianos: en nuestros hogares, hospitales y tiendas. Las insuficiencias del alivio federal y […]
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Focusing on the Outcome
efore the coronavirus pandemic, Lyk Se7N had a plan. “Right now, the goal is: make this music, make these hits, make whatever and touch others, touch the community and keep the community moving, and go to college at the same time, come back and deliver the same thing,” he said one afternoon back in mid-February. […]