One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”
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‘There’s Virtually No Conversation In Chicago … About the Aftershocks of the Violence.’
In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
Remembering Ken Nordine
The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, education, Nonfiction, Story
The Battle Over Teaching Chicago’s Schools About Police Torture and Reparations
A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, History, Quotes
‘Black Flight’ out of Chicago
By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Falling in Love with Chicago at Night: An Interview with Jessica Hopper
In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes, Uncategorized
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862
Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
How Lead Poisoned People of Color in East Chicago and Beyond
How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
In a City Divided by Barbecue, Chicago’s South Side Style Gets Ignored
On Chicago’s Southside, there is a type of barbecue found nowhere else, and it’s too widely ignored.
Posted inBlog Post
In Silicon Valley, Transportation Innovation Is a Flat Circle
Tech wizards may say they want driverless cars or the hyperloop, but what they really, really want is a bus.