When my boyfriend and I moved to Edgewater in June 2020, I had quiet weird feelings about becoming yet another white, north side Chicagoan, but the move brought me to the Red Line—and the Red Line brought me back to the world. Ten months later, I put on my mask, walked to the Thorndale stop, […]
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Posted inMusic
Chicago’s 1920s nightlife incubated world-changing musical and social experiments
The Roaring Twenties have often been portrayed as a time of wealth, glamor, and social change. Technological advances, including more widespread electrification and increased use of automobiles, plus the growth of mass media such as radio and movies, drove a booming economy—though then as now the benefits were inequitably distributed. Inspired by movie stars and […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Losing count
For nearly 20 years, the United States was on the verge of adjusting the census and eliminating the Black undercount.
Posted inNews & Politics
Corporate culture at Chicago’s top evictor is ‘an absolute caste system’
Current and former employees of Pangea describe racism, segregation, and a “toxic” workplace.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Folded Map Project shows a segregated city
Tonika Johnson’s multimedia project expands with a new film.
Posted inFilm
‘Pioneering is dangerous’
Housing and the haunting of segregation in Lovecraft Country
Posted inArts & Culture
The myth of housing mobility
The Voucher Promise chronicles the “illusions” of Section 8.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Good news week
Look on the bright side, Chicago: Burke, Lipinski, and Conway lost!
Posted inNews & Politics
New data portal documents developers’ compliance with affordable housing rules
Chicago’s Department of Housing takes a major step toward transparency.
Posted inNews & Politics
Striking teachers say paychecks are the least of their problems
At an Englewood elementary school, teachers and staff describe working conditions that hurt kids most.
Posted inArts & Culture
Power, violence, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial
This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.
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Residents reflect on rehabbed Lathrop Homes
“I suffered too much to live here.”
Posted inCity Life
From a landmark White Castle to a model town to a collection of giant sculptures—see it all on the Metra Electric District line
Adventure aboard the commuter train
Posted inArts & Culture
Survival of the starter home
Could a design contest help replenish Chicago’s affordable housing stock?
Posted inNews & Politics
Is Chicago’s legacy of segregation causing a reverse Great Migration?
Black Chicagoans are leaving the city, and an unexamined history of racial discrimination may be to blame.