The Narratives of Robeson High School
WEBThe Lisagor award-winning project would not have been possible without you. By sharing your experiences at Robeson High School with us, we were able to put together an hour-long radio program tracing through Robeson's 40-year history, a special issue of South Side Weekly newspaper devoted to the stories you told us, and an archive.
South Side Weekly
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The Chicago Housing Authority Explained – South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 25, 2022 · O riginally intended to replace overcrowded, deeply impoverished neighborhoods, Chicago’s midcentury public housing developments initially offered significantly better living conditions to residents, and for a time were, as author Dawn Turner told the South Side Weekly, “bastions” of stability that “conferred dignity on the residents.”. But subsequent decades of disinvestment and ...
Historic South Side Newspaper Changes Hands
WEBJul 28, 2022 · F red Bennet and Clarence Dresser founded the Hyde Park Herald in 1882, 29 years after Paul Cornell bought lakefront land seven miles south of a Midwestern boomtown called Chicago and the year before Hyde Park Township was annexed into the city. It is the third-oldest newspaper in Chicago, after the Tribune (founded in 1847) and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (founded in 1854).
COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago’s Neighborhoods
WEBFeb 2, 2023 · This live tracker of COVID-19 deaths by community area is intended for use as a tool toward those ends. Total deaths attributed. to COVID-19 in Chicago: 7,413. Last updated February 2, 2023. All data shown is pulled from Cook County Medical Examiner (CCME) records released through the Cook County Data …
Mapping Chicago’s Racial Segregation – South Side Weekly
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · This story was produced for WTTW’S FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION, an award-winning FIRSTHAND multiplatform, multi-year initiative focusing on the firsthand perspectives of people facing critical issues in Chicago.South Side Weekly partnered with WTTW and the Invisible Institute to co-publish text and visual reporting and analysis covering the impact racial divisions have on individuals, the city ...
Growing Up in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects
WEBMar 7, 2022 · My family moved from 4160 So Ellis to 5326 So State.We moved into Robert Taylor Homes in9/62 and moved out on 8/75.Went to Mary C Terrell and Dusble Upper Grade Cter and finally Dusable High School.The neighborhood was where the Black people were working to improve there station in life.This was a community of Blacks with deep southern rootsmy parents came from Mississippi.Church folks,number ...
City Council Moves Forward on Treatment Not Trauma
WEBOct 5, 2023 · Treatment Not Trauma was first introduced to the City Council by Rodríguez Sánchez in 2020. Then-mayor Lori Lightfoot rejected Rodríguez Sánchez’s proposal to have a non-police response for mental health emergencies, instead favoring a co-responder model that sends police and healthcare workers. Lightfoot also broke a …
Writing Rundown — South Side Weekly Resources
WEB2. Submit a new pitch . A good pitch should set up an issue or other story idea, explain why it’s compelling to cover, provide basic information about the background of the issue, and suggest some reporting avenues of inquiry and research.
Fifty Years of Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition - South Side …
WEBSep 27, 2019 · C hicago-style coalition-building helped to produce the first Black mayor of Chicago and put its first Latinx representatives in office. Some even believe its legacy led to the election of the city’s first Black woman mayor. But unbeknownst to many, this form of organizing started in the streets fifty years ago with what was called the “Rainbow Coalition”: a progressive, fundamentally ...