his year, the South Side Weekly published nearly forty issues containing hundreds of investigations, interviews, op-eds, book reviews, profiles and more. After each production night, our editorial staff jumps into next week’s stories, hunkering down to write, edit, fact-check, illustrate, and layout our next issue. With this constant grind, there’s little time for reflection. We’d […]
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for she wrote
nd She Will is a brief, difficult volume. Only twenty-seven pages, it documents author Kwyn Townsend Riley’s “heal[ing] of self inflicted and reactionary wounds” after trauma. In early 2018, within weeks of each other, Riley gave birth to a stillborn son, her fiance ended their engagement, and she attempted suicide. Her second collection of poems explores […]
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Unerasable
atricia Frazier’s Graphite opens with a quote from fellow poet Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, excerpted from a passage reflecting on the Williams sisters. Rankine says Serena and Venus are “graphite against a sharp white background,” a stark contrast to the accepted homogeneity of professional tennis. In Frazier’s book, her grandmother is given the name […]
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Best of Chinatown 2018
Best New Way to Keep Up With Boba Trends Best Butter Fix Best Message of Support to Communist Defectors Best Purple Noodles Best Children’s Book Selection Best Collection of Ancient Burial Objects Best New Way to Keep Up With Boba Trends Joy Yee Plus Located just a few stores down the block from the original […]
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Best of Little Village & Marshall Square 2018
Best Massive, Endlessly Amazing Thrift Shop Best Fusion Tacos Best Paletas De Mamey Best Grassy Knoll Best Massive, Endlessly Amazing Thrift Shop Village Discount Outlet “It’s kind of like Goodwill, if you stacked three of them on top of each other” is the way I described Village Discount Outlet to a friend. Located on the […]
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Best of the South Loop 2018
Best Sugar Rush Best Bacon-Topped Waffle Fries Best Place to Buy Multicolor Miniature Clothespins Best Place To Work—or Play—From Home Jasmine Mithani is an editor at the Weekly. She admittedly lives in one of those new-fangled South Loop high-rises, but tries to atone for it. ou moved to Sloop?” my friend asked me when we […]
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The Fight Over Chicago’s Largest Private Police Force
n the night of April 3, an officer of the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) shot a student in the grips of a mental health crisis. Charles Thomas, who had been wielding a metal pole and smashing windows, and who the officer identified as undergoing a mental health crisis before shooting him in the […]
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The Shots Heard Round the City
gunshot is fired. Depending on where in the city it is, the sound might not just be picked up by human ears. By early next year, almost 130 square miles of Chicago will be monitored for gunshots by mechanical ears as well, via a technology called ShotSpotter. ShotSpotter sensors—which have already been installed on rooftops […]
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Who Gets to Keep the Gates?
urmurs and greetings circulated through the wood-paneled meeting room of Bryn Mawr Community Church as one hundred South Shore residents settled in for the monthly 5th Ward meeting on May 23. On the evening’s agenda was the first public discussion of a set of ordinances that Alderman Leslie Hairston of the 5th Ward had quietly […]
Posted inNature Issue 2017
When Will Divvy Be For Everyone?
ver the past year, the city’s Divvy bike share program—one of the largest in North America—has added over a hundred stations across the city, dozens of them on the South Side. A year ago, the last time the Weekly reported on Divvy’s service of the South Side, we found that South Siders accounted for just […]