Tag: Chicago

One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”

In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.

The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.

A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.

By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.

In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.

Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.

How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.

On Chicago’s Southside, there is a type of barbecue found nowhere else, and it’s too widely ignored.

Tech wizards may say they want driverless cars or the hyperloop, but what they really, really want is a bus.

A visit to Illinois—home to snow, slaughterhouse romance, and a fraught geology masquerading as pizza—courtesy of Matthew Gavin Frank’s brilliant new book.

How burdens and values pass from fathers to sons, and the search for that one true thing.

This week’s College Longreads selection is as much for the publication as it is for the story. Richie Siegel’s article about a Japanese street food restaurant in Chicago called Yoshu is mostly a profile of the owners, with a little bit of a restaurant review on the side. Siegel, a sophomore at NYU, is an […]

The demolition of the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago was supposed to open up new opportunities for low-income families. But the community has disappeared: The fifteen-story high-rise was known by its address, 1230 N. Burling. Already stripped of every window, door, appliance, and cabinet, the monolith was like a giant dresser without drawers. The teeth tore […]