In with the new
January is never an easy time. Resolutions made in earnest at the start of the New Year quickly slip away. The realities of daily life reassert themselves and life falls back into its old, familiar...
View ArticleSticking Up for Lacrosse
Paul looked on appreciatively from the sidelines as his son came off the bench for the first time in the game. Two years younger and a head shorter than the other players around him, Paul Jr. chased...
View ArticleOut but not Down
Just as the modest wooden structure in the yard at 57th and Woodlawn brings together events from different times and places, SHoP was intended from its beginnings in October 2011 to provide a meeting...
View ArticleThings Past
The past is a foreign country ripe for exploration in “On Making Things Matter,” the Southside Hub of Production’s last show in their Fenn House home. On four floors dedicated to the themes of memory...
View ArticleA Life & Story
Timuel Black Jr., aged 8 months old, and his two parents, both sharecroppers from Alabama, arrived in Chicago in August 1919. The parents were only a generation removed from the scars of slavery and...
View ArticleDebate League
They all looked alike: understated white, blue or pink shirts and dresses, perhaps a jacket draped on the back of the chair, sporting loosened ties and conservative handbags. Most of the attendees were...
View ArticleUpon Leaving Town
It’s an alluring conceit: Chicago, a city so varied, so complex, and so radically different from one block to the next that one can never truly belong to it. In “You Were Never in Chicago,” part...
View ArticleThe Future of Woodlawn’s Housing
As the city and HUD plan Woodlawn's future, some yearn for something more like the past. The official plan is an irresistible, seductive vision of Woodlawn’s future—a neighborhood reinventing itself...
View ArticleHussein Castillo
Hussein Castillo is part restauranteur, part chirpy tourist ambassador. Only twenty-eight, he runs a restaurant called Garifuna Flava in Chicago Lawn, just west of the intersection of 63rd and...
View ArticleBeverly Swills
Hardboiled Coffee, with its shelves of pulp magazines and walls of long forgotten film noir, is only the latest addition to a neighborhood that’s unafraid to wear its history on its sleeves.Read more →
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