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.
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South-side poet Kwynology wants you to fall back in love with Chicago at her open mike
In the Yard will let south- and west-siders share their work in their own community.
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Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget
Every year, police take millions of dollars from ordinary Chicagoans and spend it behind closed doors.
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The uprising against Riot Fest continues
Activists refuse to be quiet about Riot Fest, but boosters say their claims are off base.
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Trap House Chicago bridges streetwear and restorative justice
Mashaun Hendricks’s for-profit clothing line is just one aspect of his activist efforts to address the city’s gun violence.
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Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.
Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.
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How protests in Ferguson inspired the occupation of ‘Freedom Square’
Before Chicago activists set up camp at Homan Square, Ferguson activists camped across from police headquarters for 47 straight days.
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What does it mean to be a white ally?
White Chicagoans grapple with their place in the movement for black lives.
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One activist arrested Wednesday during police divestment protest and party
The action honored victims of recent police-involved deaths and opposed the proposed “Blue Lives Matter” ordinance.
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FBI warned CPD about possible plot to kill cops during Laquan McDonald controversy, and other Chicago news
Also, a man killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting lived in Chicago until March.
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Teenage boy shot dead by police was reportedly climbing over a fence, and other Chicago news
Also, the mayor’s accountability task force has released a scathing report on racism in the police force.
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Chicago cops purposely blocked audio on dash-cam videos, Homan Square scandal gets even more interesting, and other Chicago news
Also, Mavis Staples enlists interesting new collaborators, and the media wonders whether Governor Rauner has a state e-mail address.
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Where’s Chicago in Chicago P.D.?
Seen in light of the real Chicago Police Department, Dick Wolf’s cop series looks even more clueless and tone-deaf.
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Cook County Board approves resolution requesting federal probe of Homan Square
Commissioner Richard Boykin got what he wanted: an ask for the Department of Justice to look into the alleged “off the books” interrogation site.
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Can Cook County commissioners do anything about Homan Square?
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.