or the past six months, Michelle Thomas, a youth case manager at The Night Ministry has been trying to get a new Social Security card for her twenty-two-year-old houseless client. After months of contacting different offices and scheduling an emergency visit to a Social Security Administration (SSA) office that was initially denied, Thomas’s client is […]
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Q&A: The COVID-19 Delta Variant
Dr. Alana Biggers, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine and internist at the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Biggers earned a master’s in public health with a focus in chronic disease epidemiology from Tulane University, attended medical school at UIC, then completed a residency in the greater Milwaukee […]
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Best of Hegewisch 2021
Best Startup Best Local Activist Best Community Pushback he rest of Chicago seems light years away whenever I’m in Hegewisch, visiting my brother or crossing the state border while passing through to visit family in Hammond, Indiana. Living on the Southwest Side for ten years, I’ve grown accustomed to walking a few minutes to a […]
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Mutual Aid Projects May Soon Run up Against Bureaucratic Barriers
lthough the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 shutdown on Chicagoans are still unfolding, one thing has been clear to many from the start: the government wasn’t going to save them. In 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act distributed stimulus checks of $1,200, on average, to Americans to last from April to […]
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As Illinois Bans Immigration Detention in the State, What Will Happen to People Currently Detained?
ov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Way Forward Act on August 2, dramatically restricting the way local law enforcement will be able to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Illinois. “The Illinois Way Forward Act strengthens the TRUST Act by taking immigration status off the table in all state procedures where it […]
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Carjackings
Half of Chicago fully vaccinated As of July 20 fifty percent of Chicagoans are vaccinated, according to South Side Weekly‘s tracker on Twitter @ChiVaxBot. While we’re hopeful that Illinois and the rest of the country are overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic as more people are gradually getting the shots, the coronavirus variant known as Delta is […]
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La desigualdad en la vacunación aumenta en los suburbios del sur de Chicago
Read in English Traducido por Gisela Orozco o existe una frontera clara que distinga a Chicago de los suburbios del sur. De hecho, el sur de Chicago parece continuar por millas y millas ya que las históricas calles que van de norte a sur como son la State, Halsted, Western y Pulaski, se extienden derecho […]
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Englewood: Critical Care
y the time they call you back, it’s too late,” says Englewood resident Evelyn Varner from a Zoom square, as sixteen Englewood women, members of Saint Benedict the African Catholic Church, gathered online for their thrice-weekly “COVID in the Hood” call. Varner is sharing her frustrations with telehealth-care. Since March of last year, this group […]
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City reopens
City reopens Fifteen months after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools, businesses, and government offices, the City—after several false starts—is finally, officially, and fully reopening on June 11. On Monday, the city’s coronavirus positivity rate fell below two percent for the first time since the pandemic began; hospitalizations have similarly dropped off. But unvaccinated people […]
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Anti-Asian Violence Stirs Conversation on Policing and Abolition in Chicago’s AAPI Communities
Editor’s note: This story uses Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) to refer to the community being reported, recognizing that the community includes a diverse range of ethnicities and identities. Sources may refer to particular or collective groups as “people of Asian descent” or “Asian Americans,” in which cases we maintain the original language from […]