“My earliest memory of myself is of my sister. My earliest understanding of my world comes from three women—my mother, grandmother, and aunt.” In her new memoir Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Story of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood, Dawn Turner turns her journalistic eye toward her own story, one she weaves as inextricable […]
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Posted inNews & Politics
Breaking the cycle
For three decades, the city has failed to cope with the loss of mental health clinics. The pandemic revealed the wounds of this disinvestment.
Posted inCity Life
Reset your mind with cherry blossoms
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
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Have you seen these 51 women?
If there wasn’t a serial killer who picked off dozens of victims without detection for decades, then the city was broken in a way that gave off the illusion of one.
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A case of disappearing hoops in gentrifying neighborhoods
In the last decade the Chicago Park District has removed 12 of 16 basketball courts from neighborhoods that have doubled and tripled in value, further marginalizing communities facing displacement.
Posted inMusic
Chicago’s Growing Concerns Poetry Collective use kindness to unite people against bigotry
The three members of Growing Concerns Poetry Collective all juggle other practices outside their collaboration. Their CVs are too extensive to discuss exhaustively, but poet McKenzie Chinn has built a career acting onstage (she’s a Goodman Theatre regular) and on TV (she has a recurring role on CBS’s Chicago-based drama The Red Line). She also […]
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Wherever you go, there you are
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
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I’ll just drink this tea, thanks
What our listings coordinator is musing about this week
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This is my brain on local TV news
Thirteen and a half hours of broadcasts on looting leave a day of impressions without a trace.
Posted inMusic
The return of Captain Sky
Chicago funk superhero Captain Sky releases his first album in 40 years—and this time his mission includes mentoring Black teenagers on the south side.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
On being a single dad, a journalist, and a Black south-sider during the pandemic
It involves juggling my kid’s Zoom-call cameos and a new beat, and checking in on my homies.
Posted inArts & Culture
Turning life lessons into a Korporate Bidness
“As long as I got YouTube and the latest iPhone, I’m Gucci.”
Posted inCity Life
Ode to the Green Line
A vital—and vexing—vehicle that connects Chicago’s Black communities on the south and west sides
Posted inFilm
South Side is an inside joke even outsiders will get
The Comedy Central series offers a nuanced, and incredibly funny, depiction of Englewood you won’t see on the news.
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‘This is my home’
Woodlawn residents share their vision for a neighborhood in transition