The documentary takes audiences to the front lines with millennial women leading the city’s Movement for Black Lives.
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Lightfoot hijacks Lollapalooza
Did Chicago musicians booked for Lollapalooza know their sets might look like an endorsement of Mayor Lightfoot?
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Why do indie musicians put up with penny payouts?
Streaming your favorite artists’ music is the least helpful way to support them. But they can’t abandon those platforms, because we won’t.
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Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives
Wyatt Waddell drops a single to rally the fighters for Black lives, Nnamdï gives away more than $10,000 in “Bandcamp day” revenue, and more.
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Police abolitionists find fuel in the protests
As more people lose faith in the state, organizers offer alternatives.
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A Visual Voter’s Guide
Protest images from the last two years will inspire you to get to the polls.
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Mental health advocates are battling self-proclaimed ‘gangster’ alderman Willie Cochran over an empty lot
Organizers of a pop-up mental health services project in Woodlawn vow to fight imminent eviction.
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Hundreds of Chicago students to protest gun violence outside Stroger Hospital this weekend
GoodKidsMadCity, a group of student activists, is organizing the “sit-/die-in.”
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Todd Stroger is running against Toni Preckwinkle for Cook County Board president, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago’s homicide count has surpassed 600 for the second year in a row.
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Emanuel embraces Madigan’s CPD reform lawsuit—while fighting an identical suit from Black Lives Matter
Chicago’s mayor gets aboard a police reform effort from Illinois’s attorney general, but will victims of police violence be sidelined?
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Protests at Pride Parade and Dyke March pose questions for Chicago’s LGBTQ community
Disruptions at the two events raised separate concerns about inclusivity and tolerance.
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For federal oversight of police reform to work, pressure from the community must continue
A Black Lives Matter lawsuit seeking federal oversight over CPD reform has real power—but only if there’s pressure on leadership from the ground up.
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‘Our Duty to Fight’ brings Black Lives Matter to the art gallery
A new exhibit at Gallery 400 documents the past, present, and future of the activist movement.
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Queer women are shaping Chicago’s Black Lives Matter movement
They’re stepping to the forefront in a struggle once dominated by charismatic men.
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Black Lives Matter activists arrested during protest of police chiefs conference
Activists called for more community input and an end to police brutality.