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Día de los Muertos parade 2019

by Jamie Ramsay November 4, 2019August 18, 2021

Photographer Rick Majewski covered the 40th annual Muertos de la Risa on Saturday, November 2, 2019, in Pilsen. The longest-running Dia de los Muertos celebration in the city honors the lives of those passed with a procession, offerings, performances, and face painting. v Día de los Muertos 2019

City Life

Ode to the Green Line

by W.D. Floyd October 17, 2019August 18, 2021

A vital—and vexing—vehicle that connects Chicago’s Black communities on the south and west sides

News & Politics

‘Enough is enough’

by Hillary Johnson October 3, 2019August 18, 2021

Many in Chicago’s Hong Kong community share common concerns for the safety of loved ones back home.

Arts & Culture

A pageant to foster Asian American female leaders

by Carolyn Chen September 26, 2019August 18, 2021

Photos from the Miss Chinese Chicago Pageant 2019

Arts & Culture

Sculpting identity—and diversity—through movement

by Max Thomsen September 12, 2019August 18, 2021

Hubbard Street dancer Connie Shiau

News & Politics

Chicago Muay Thai

by Geoff Stellfox September 5, 2019August 18, 2021

The smell of menthol oil and the whine of traditional Thai instrumental music pierce the humid July air of the Cicero Stadium on fight night. Though it’s best known for hosting Chicago’s annual Golden Gloves boxing tournament, today the stadium has a new occupant: Muay Thai. The national sport of Thailand, in which participants use […]

Arts & Culture

Changing spaces

by Kathleen Hinkel August 28, 2019August 18, 2021

Douglas, Union, and Grant Parks have served as valued community centers for Chicago since the mid-1800s. Today, all three parks host thousands of attendees for popular private music festivals—Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Lollapalooza, respectively—taking on a different personality for one weekend each summer before returning to their treasured role as neighborly […]