The greater Englewood area has been subject to land theft for over 80 years. It’s apparent when you see boarded-up windows and overgrown weeds that cover the community. Empty houses abound, a legacy of the impact that racism has had on the area for years, vacant lots indicating opportunities withheld from aspiring Black homeowners. It’s […]
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Posted inMusic
Thirty years ago, a Black queer zine captured the scene that birthed house
Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of Thing, which was felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
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Sor Juana gets the banda back together on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by artist Eric J. García of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago printmaking collective.
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New data portal documents developers’ compliance with affordable housing rules
Chicago’s Department of Housing takes a major step toward transparency.
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Fear and loathing at a South Shore co-op
Oglesby Manor survived the Great Depression and the Great Recession. Will gentrification and neighborly discord spell the death of this housing co-operative?
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LLCs affiliated with Pangea, Chicago’s most frequent filer of eviction cases
Real estate developer Pangea owns hundreds of shell companies that insulate the company from litigation. Here’s a list of the ones we’ve identified.
Posted inArts & Culture
There’s a great play to be written about bigotry in Evanston in the early 20th century
The cumbersome, contrived, and dull A Home on the Lake is not it.
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Are tiny houses a solution to homelessness in Chicago?
The push for a small answer to a massive problem
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More than 100 people were shot and 15 killed over the long weekend, and other Chicago news
Also, Michael Madigan delays the Illinois house vote to override Rauner’s veto of the budget package and income tax hike until Thursday.
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More than 1,000 people have been shot in Chicago in 2017, and other news
Also, there are plenty of condos for sale in the Trump Tower.
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Transgender CPS students will still be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice, and other Chicago news
The federal government is reportedly paying former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. $138,400 a year.
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Rahm Emanuel makes it clear that he’s not running for DNC chair or president in 2020, and other Chicago news
Also, Lakeview’s The Alley is set to reopen in 2017.
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Chicago area forecasted to have the weakest real estate market in the U.S. in 2017, and other news
Also, there have been more than 700 murders in the city so far this year.
Posted inFilm
For writer-director Ira Sachs, it’s all about the real estate
Little Men is a tale of friendship and gentrification.
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Lisa Madigan orders cops to release Laquan McDonald e-mails, and other Chicago news
Also, Trump’s broken promise to early buyers in his Chicago tower.