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Home » Auburn-Gresham

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Posted inMusic

On house arrest with Mohawk Johnson

by Leor Galil March 31, 2021August 18, 2021

CPD has tried to turn rapper and comedian Mohawk Johnson into a cautionary example to social justice protesters. He has other plans.

Posted inNews & Politics

Aldermen power through Lightfoot’s emergency moves

by Dave Glowacz May 22, 2020August 18, 2021

When it comes to pandemic planning, is the mayor responsive and collaborative, or dismissive and combative? It depends on whom you ask.

Posted inMusic

Chicago’s Blake Saint David knows how to navigate our genreless future

by Leor Galil December 21, 2019August 18, 2021

Brockhampton, Billie Eilish, Khalid, and scores of other musicians who’ve emerged in the past few years have taken a wrecking ball to genre divides and gotten hugely popular in the process. The genreless state of pop has also produced a lot of gray, emotionally static music, of course, just like happens within any genre, but […]

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Kelwin Harris, DJ and former assistant to Mayor Daley

by Anne Ford June 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Kelwin Harris: “Was Mayor Daley intimidating like a guy-beating-on-a-table, in-your-face kind of thing? No.”

Posted inBlogs

Why aldermen are mum about Chicago’s violence: They’re not sure what to say

by Mick Dumke June 3, 2014August 18, 2021

To stop the bloodshed, members of the City Council propose more cops, jobs, church, and trips to Great America.

Did Richard J. Daley once live here? It's not in Bridgeport.
Posted inNews & Politics

Zoom in: Auburn-Gresham

by Aimee Levitt June 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Richard J. Daley is inextricably tied to Bridgeport, sure, but what’s up with the stopover in Auburn-Gresham?

Posted inArts & Culture

The unfinished business of Richard M. Daley

by Mick Dumke May 14, 2013August 19, 2021

First Son, details the accomplishments of Mayor Richard M. Daley—but it barely sets foot in Chicago.

Activists protested the closing of the city's mental health clinic in Woodlawn last year, and they're vowing to continue the fight.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Before the schools, Mayor Emanuel closed the clinics

by Ben Joravsky March 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Before Mayor Emanuel proposed closing schools, he shuttered mental health clinics.

Posted inBlogs

School closings: The latest blow to neighborhoods already reeling from disinvestment

by Mick Dumke March 1, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s the cost of pulling the plug on public services in neighborhoods desperately in need of them?

Posted inBlogs

South-side residents fend off pawnshop plan

by Mick Dumke October 23, 2012August 19, 2021

In the face of community opposition, plans are withdrawn for a pawnshop at 79th and Western

Posted inBlogs

The shot that brought the projects down, part four of five

by Mick Dumke October 15, 2012October 15, 2021

How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part four of five

21st Ward alderman Howard Brookins Jr. says of Big Pawn owner Alvin Bell Jr., "He's a decent guy doing a decent thing. He runs a family business."
Posted inNews & Politics

The people v. the pawnshop

by Mick Dumke October 4, 2012August 19, 2021

What one vacant lot says about the future of devlopment in the city

Posted inBlogs

Rahm announces another “new initiative” that’s decades old

by Mick Dumke July 12, 2012August 19, 2021

The mayor’s plan to raze troubled buildings sounds a lot like the one Mayor Daley “introduced” in 1992

Posted inBlogs

City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest

by Mick Dumke January 4, 2012August 19, 2021

City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest

Posted inBlogs

Father Pfleger: end the pot possession busts!

by Mick Dumke December 5, 2011August 19, 2021

On pro-pot-decriminalization priest Father Michael Pfleger

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