After hundreds of complaints, citations, and a class-action settlement, city inspectors’ notes show instances where MAT ...

Artists on the South and West sides rely on free or subsidized community housing and the support of mission-driven arts ...

Ante el aumento vertiginoso de los precios de la vivienda en un barrio en proceso de gentrificación, vivir en la casa ...

After implementing a contribute-what-you-can model last year, new and veteran artist make up a growing and diverse student ...

Founded in 2013, South Side Weekly NFP is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to producing local journalism that is for, by, and about the South Side of Chicago. Over the past decade, the Weekly has grown ...

The 1919 Race Riots, which were part of the racial violence seen across the country during a period known as the Red Summer, were provoked by an attempt to enforce segregation in the waters of Lake ...

The Underground Railroad was neither a railroad nor was it underground. It was a secret network led by people that included free Black and anti-slavery white people who helped escaped slaves, or ...

On Monday, the City Council Committee on Police & Fire advanced an ordinance that would place the decision to keep ShotSpotter at the ward level, with individual alderpersons choosing whether or not ...

By the Numbers: How the Weekly wrangled raw data into insights on ShotSpotter’s effect on crime reporting across the city In November 2017, South Side Weekly requested data for all incidents related ...

The data show that only twenty-six of the 399 cops investigated from 2017 to 2023 had the allegations sustained, meaning COPA investigators found substantial corroborating evidence that the domestic ...

Slowly everyone filtered into the high school: lifelong Pilsen residents, people who had lived in Pilsen for generations but had left or been pushed out of the neighborhood, and other Chicagoans ...

Evan Beverly doesn’t identify as a serious baseball fan. But as a lifelong South Sider and longtime bartender in Woodlawn bars where the game is always on, the thirty-six-year-old has an affinity for ...