In a recent 20-month period, more than 20% of shootings and reckless discharges in Chicago’s coverage area had no ...

P oet, essayist, and activist Marguerite L. Harrold, who grew up in and around Chicago (Morgan Park on the South Side and ...

CDOT proposal could drastically shift quality of life in and around Brighton Park, but the State must step in to make larger ...

Books and mail are life-changing for people behind bars—and book bans are destructive to civil rights and collective humanity ...

But the city’s corporation counsel, Mary Richardson Lowry, told reporters that the City Council has no subpoena rights over ...

Board of Education Fiasco On Monday, October 7, Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed six new individuals to the Board of Education, in place of the seven that resigned in unison last Friday, October 4. The ...

The crowd at Studio 51 tears up the dance floor to the sound of cumbia. Credit: Jesus J Montero A summer spent at Gage Park’s Studio 51 is a blur of shots, laser lights, and sequin dresses. Every ...

September 23, thousands of ShotSpotter sensors that have been monitoring city streets for gunfire on Chicago’s South and West Sides stopped providing alerts to the police department — at least for […] ...

In one incident, ShotSpotter missed a 55-round shooting that left two men critically wounded. In internal emails, company executives told each other they couldn’t tell the City broken sensors were the ...

Growing up in Chicago, the South Side was my playground. And Englewood, where my family lived for three generations, was home base. Playing at Hamilton Park and swimming at Kennedy-King College filled ...

If you’re thinking, “Huh, it’s been a while since I saw one of these…” you’d be right. Our last Best of the South Side issue, which celebrated ten years of BoSS, came out in 2022. After iterating on ...

When someone refers to the South Shore Country Club as the “South Shore Cultural Center,” I immediately make one of two observations about them: They are the opps. They are not from South Shore. There ...