South Side Weekly
WEB2 days ago · Community newspaper by and for Chicago's South Side. Arts, Culture, Politics. Est. 2013.
Writing Rundown — South Side Weekly Resources
WEBThe South Side Weekly is a nonprofit newsroom that covers arts, culture, and politics on the South Side of Chicago, with a circulation of around 10,000 print copies. We publish coverage of local artists and arts events, as well as reporting in the public interest on subjects such as education, development, policing, and food; we also publish personal essays, poetry, and visual art.
The Narratives of Robeson High School
WEBThe Lisagor award-winning project would not have been possible without you. By sharing your experiences at Robeson High School with us, we were able to put together an hour-long radio program tracing through Robeson's 40-year history, a special issue of South Side Weekly newspaper devoted to the stories you told us, and an archive.
The Chicago Housing Authority Explained - South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 25, 2022 · Originally intended to replace overcrowded, deeply impoverished neighborhoods, Chicago’s midcentury public housing developments initially offered significantly better living conditions to residents, and for a time were, as author Dawn Turner told the South Side Weekly, “bastions” of stability that “conferred dignity on the residents.” But subsequent decades of disinvestment and ...
COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago’s Neighborhoods
WEBFeb 2, 2023 · Chicago is a city of socially knit neighborhoods, not precisely boxed zip codes or uniform experience. In order to understand the public health of our city and to properly advocate for just allocation of care and resources, we must see clearly the way illness appears along lines of disparity. This live tracker of COVID-19 deaths by community area is intended for use as a tool toward those ends ...
Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation - South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation. This series was produced for WTTW’S FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION, an award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago. South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual ...
Jewish Protesters Block Traffic to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza
WEBOct 24, 2023 · Jewish protesters sat in Ida B. Wells Drive during rush hour to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Credit: Jim Daley. Last week, U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez (IL-3) cosponsored a resolution urging the Biden administration to call for immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in the conflict. Ramirez told the Weekly that funding should be used to promote peace ...
Contact - South Side Weekly
WEBIf you have submissions, story ideas, comments, or questions, you can reach us by email at [email protected], or by mail at: Attn: South Side Weekly Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. Chicago, IL 60637
Big Business Runs Illinois Cannabis - South Side Weekly
WEBApr 12, 2024 · Yet just six months into Illinois’s first year of recreational cannabis sales, Grown In reported in 2020 that 77 percent of the state’s cultivation market was already controlled by just six major companies: Verano, Cresco, GTI, Ascend Wellness Holdings, Pharmacann, and Revolution Global. Fast forward to 2024, and that hasn’t changed much.
La Villita’s Guadalupe Mural Continues to Heal - South Side Weekly
WEBDec 8, 2021 · Leer en español Countless people have seen the enormous Virgen de Guadalupe street painting in Chicago’s La Villita neighborhood—a mural near 26th St. and Pulaski Ave.—that displays a young man kneeling in the foreground with his head bowed in prayer. Drivers and pedestrians can’t miss it, and people from out of state come to Chicago to see it. The praying man in the mural is the ...