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Here’s what happening in Hyde Park this weekend!
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Our Chicago School Board Voter Guide is here! 🗳️💪
All 21 Chicago Board of Education members are up for election for the first time ever. @BlockClubCHI @chalkbeatCHI @WBEZ @Suntimes collaborated over months to produce a multilingual guide.
Check it out: chalkbeat.org/chicago/school…
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We've got a school board president candidate forum double feature tonight!
Tune in LIVE at 6pm to @chalkbeatCHI @HydeParkHerald @SouthSideWeekly @UChiPolitics forum moderated by @reemadamin and Max Blaisdell. youtube.com/watch?v=9RXltpha…
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“Rieles y Raíces” places Mexicans on the South Side of Chicago in the early 1900s as laborers who helped to build the railroad. @SouthSideWeekly
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After implementing a contribute-what-you-can model last year, new and veteran artists make up a growing and diverse student population seeking space to create and build community. Read more via @SouthSideWeekly: southsideweekly.us12.list-ma…
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BREAKING: Calls and documents show CPD's "fusion" center was aware agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE, were requesting help on June 4. CPD maintains that responding officers were unaware immigration enforcement was occurring.
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When asked to clarify CPD Superintendent Snelling's position on the snap curfew, CPD provided this response from him today to @SouthSideWeekly :
"The Chicago Police Department and myself are focused on public safety. I have been clear that we will do everything in our power..
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Lewis in the News - What It Looks Like to Fight Back: Inside Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum bit.ly/3FpPKyP
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Most street outreach workers, who stop gun violence before it starts, don’t earn enough to meet their needs, @CornersResearch's Soledad Adrianzén McGrath & @AVPapachristos write in @SouthSideWeekly. In Illinois, the Home for Good bill aims to fix that.
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After ICE illegally arrested & detained our client Abel Orozco without a warrant, NIJC, his family, and organizers are working tirelessly to free him & give him a fair day in court. Learn abt Abel's story in @SouthSideWeekly: southsideweekly.com/no-warra…
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My preview of Ricardo Gamboa's staging of "The Pillowman" is on the cover of this week's @SouthSideWeekly check it out ⬇️
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loved writing this piece, cmon throwback!! @SouthSideWeekly
"I urge everyone to practice calling on those who make you feel loved, supported, and needed in your moments where you feel most alone."
Collective Struggle: How We Achieve Our Liberated Future, Together by @kamilalyciaa
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To round out our spotlights we have @SouthSideWeekly, a nonprofit newsroom that has transformed local news through collaborative journalism. The outlet empowers residents to tell their own stories and has ranked third in a reader satisfaction survey among Chicago news outlets.
ALT The layout features a bright green border, Field Foundation logo at the bottom and four main articles with headlines and images: 1. Top left: "Chicago Legends Debate the Origins of House Music" with a photo of a person wearing headphones performing or DJing 2. Top right: "Missed Shots" subtitled "The Weekly's investigation of ShotSpotter, a controversial gunshot-detection company" by Jim Daley and Max Blaisdell (February 1, 2024), showing an image of mounted electronic equipment 3. Bottom left: "Everyone Is Mad at the Wrong People" with a subheading about Black organizers calling for focus in affordable housing debates, showing a person in an orange top and blue hat 4. Bottom right: "South Side as Inspiration: Alma Campos" describing a narrative odyssey where Senior Editor Alma Campos paints imagery of Chicago's South Side, accompanied by a photo of an industrial bridge or structure "SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY" is prominently displayed across the middle in large black text.
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“There’s lots of blame-casting going around for what’s happening in Palestine. I blame the Brits!”
Chicago Irish Protest for Palestine Over St. Patrick’s Day Weekend @SouthSideWeekly southsideweekly.com/chicago-…
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Too often, people's loved ones are illegally denied legal services after ICE arrests, or they're relocated & disappeared. @SouthSideWeekly's @alma_campos unravels ICE's detention maze and shares tools ppl can use to locate their loved ones here: southsideweekly.com/where-do…
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For @SouthSideWeekly I wrote a special report for 420 on the ongoing disparities on Chicago’s South Side and the lack of nearby dispensaries compared to the North Side.
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My first story in Chicago was about the need and want of special education classroom assistants, aka SECAs, in IEP meetings.
Two years later, I now get to write that SECAs are allowed to request themselves for such meetings.
NEW @southsideweekly
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At Christmas, and on days like today, Greer-Lee said she asks her husband’s spirit to give her strength. “I pray, and I think about the life that we could have had together,” she said.
“That’s what makes me keep fighting.”
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Good read, written super well. Listen to Yvette
Have you ever been to Chicago for real if you ain’t never got juked on? According to @CITY4KAI, the answer is no.
The heart behind his first big project, Yvette, and so much more in his interview with the Weekly (@supernaira) ⬇️
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Yuhhh New interview up w/ @SouthSideWeekly ..blessed & honored🫶🏾
Have you ever been to Chicago for real if you ain’t never got juked on? According to @CITY4KAI, the answer is no.
The heart behind his first big project, Yvette, and so much more in his interview with the Weekly (@supernaira) ⬇️
southsideweekly.com/footwork…