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Home » Homan Square

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Posted inMusic

Photos: AMFM fights food deserts with the Feast festival

by Aaron Allen September 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Arts and culture organization AMFM brought food, art, and music to Homan Square Park to call attention to hunger on the west and south sides.

Posted inBlogs

South-side poet Kwynology wants you to fall back in love with Chicago at her open mike

by Matt Harvey June 25, 2018August 18, 2021

In the Yard will let south- and west-siders share their work in their own community.

Posted inNews & Politics

Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget

by Joel Handley, Jennifer Helsby and Freddy Martinez September 29, 2016September 22, 2021

Every year, police take millions of dollars from ordinary Chicagoans and spend it behind closed doors.

Posted inMusic

The uprising against Riot Fest continues

by John Greenfield August 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Activists refuse to be quiet about Riot Fest, but boosters say their claims are off base.

Posted inArts & Culture

Trap House Chicago bridges streetwear and restorative justice

by Sam Ribakoff August 25, 2016August 18, 2021

Mashaun Hendricks’s for-profit clothing line is just one aspect of his activist efforts to address the city’s gun violence.

Posted inNews & Politics

Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.

by Maya Dukmasova August 25, 2016August 18, 2021

Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How protests in Ferguson inspired the occupation of ‘Freedom Square’

by Derrick Clifton August 9, 2016August 18, 2021

Before Chicago activists set up camp at Homan Square, Ferguson activists camped across from police headquarters for 47 straight days.

Posted inBlogs

What does it mean to be a white ally?

by Maya Dukmasova July 21, 2016August 18, 2021

White Chicagoans grapple with their place in the movement for black lives.

Posted inBlogs

One activist arrested Wednesday during police divestment protest and party

by Jessica Kim Cohen July 21, 2016August 18, 2021

The action honored victims of recent police-involved deaths and opposed the proposed “Blue Lives Matter” ordinance.

Posted inBlogs

FBI warned CPD about possible plot to kill cops during Laquan McDonald controversy, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd June 15, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, a man killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting lived in Chicago until March.

Posted inBlogs

Teenage boy shot dead by police was reportedly climbing over a fence, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd April 14, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the mayor’s accountability task force has released a scathing report on racism in the police force.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago cops purposely blocked audio on dash-cam videos, Homan Square scandal gets even more interesting, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd January 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, Mavis Staples enlists interesting new collaborators, and the media wonders whether Governor Rauner has a state e-mail address.

Posted inBlogs

Where’s Chicago in Chicago P.D.?

by Dmitry Samarov January 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Seen in light of the real Chicago Police Department, Dick Wolf’s cop series looks even more clueless and tone-deaf.

Posted inBlogs

Cook County Board approves resolution requesting federal probe of Homan Square

by La Risa Lynch January 15, 2016August 18, 2021

Commissioner Richard Boykin got what he wanted: an ask for the Department of Justice to look into the alleged “off the books” interrogation site.

Posted inNews & Politics

Can Cook County commissioners do anything about Homan Square?

by La Risa Lynch January 13, 2016August 18, 2021

Richard Boykin wants the feds to investigate Chicago’s “off the books” interrogation site. But his move will test the relationship between city and county governments.

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