Potted Plants, Public Parks
For artist Allyson Packer, there’s a lot more than soil in the pot of a houseplant. “I really like to think of them as little, tiny pieces of land,” she said, “that are kind of moving throughout the...
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The Way Forward
The camera pans out over blocks of demolition and disarray, dizzying the viewer with a slow, swiveling descent from the top of a construction site. It’s 1953 in Chicago and “urban renewal” has only...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Build a Solar Farm in Altgeld
Chicago’s segregated history has led to unequal outcomes for Black communities across the city. For far too long we’ve known what it’s like to feel forgotten. Though 2020 has only exposed what I’ve...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Has Made It Even Harder For Some Chicago Residents to Access...
Since the pandemic began, I Grow Chicago, a West Englewood-based nonprofit, has made more than 4,000 essential deliveries to neighborhood residents. Many of these deliveries, director of development...
View ArticleBringing Open Access Fiber Connectivity to Chicago
In the Weekly’s October 14 issue, City Bureau’s Lynda Lopez reported that in addition to public officials and a graduated income tax amendment, Chicagoans will also vote on a non-binding referendum...
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Mural on Don Pedro’s Carnitas Looks Ahead
Don Pedro had wanted a mural inside of his carnitas restaurant before he passed away three years ago from illness, said owner and former spouse Magdalena Duarte as she stood in the parking lot gazing...
View ArticleCounty Budget Downgrades ER Services and Closes South Side Clinics
The 2021 Cook County budget closed a shortfall of more than $400 million with funds from the county’s general reserve, eliminations of vacant jobs, more than a hundred layoffs in the Cook County Health...
View ArticleThere’s an Uptick in Street Overdoses During the Pandemic
Latonia Easter, forty-six, waits in line to receive food and harm reduction supplies provided by a Chicago Recovery Alliance (CRA) truck parked at the corner of 68th and South Halsted. Easter has been...
View ArticleIt’s Not About Obama
When Mitzi Haynes’ daughter Taylor moved back to Chicago in 2017, escalating rents forced her to move in with Haynes and Haynes’ mother in a cramped two-bedroom apartment in South Shore. “It’s going...
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Gambling on the 78
Walk along Roosevelt Road just east of the Chicago River, and you’ll see construction commencing on a road. It’s part of “The 78”–a megadevelopment so named because Related Midwest, the developer for...
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