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Pinch me: The nonprofit group Protect Our Parks was back in court this week attempting to keep the Obama Presidential Center out of Jackson Park. POP’s…
Wesley Hamilton for Chicago reader Warning: This story contains brief descriptions of alleged rape and sexual assault. Roger Bonair-Agard was intelligent, mischievous, and even adored. One…
Memory is an abstraction. It holds our entire history, but how much of that is our ‘real’ story? And what stories do we tell ourselves about…
“Fasting felt necessary, mind over matter,” Sharonda Miller says. Courtesy Antu’Nesha Taylor Stretched out on her bunk at night, arms all akimbo, Sharonda Miller likes to…
click to enlarge A handmade sign advertises the $20 entrance fee. Pride North illegally charged a $20 entrance fee to the festival on Sunday, city officials…
click to enlarge Dr. Charles Smith, Dred Scott: Asked Supreme Court to Free Him, c. 1985–99 Courtesy John Michael Kohler Arts Center Collection (Gift of Kohler…
click to enlarge Urban Growers Collective, a Black- and women-run nonprofit, is one of the groups working to create food equity in the city. Adam M.…
click to enlarge Willie Jones outside the Elite Houses of Sober Living’s facilities in Chicago Heights Michael Murney Willie Jones clutched his chest and gasped for…
click to enlarge Courtesy the Fenster family I was startled when I saw the news come up on my Twitter feed. A young American journalist in…