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Max Blaisdell

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Sep 24, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Max Blaisdell, staff writer

    Developers unveil proposals for former Fiske School in Woodlawn (opens the original)

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    Three development teams have presented competing visions this month for the long-vacant Fiske Elementary School building, ranging from a youth and senior wellness center to two different mixes of housing and community space. The proposals were unveiled Sept. 16 at a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) community meeting at the Akarama Foundation Community Service Center, 6220 S. Ingleside Ave. It was the second such meeting for the site, following an earlier round of community input this year. The forme

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Max Blaisdell

    Walking tours, voter registration and a youth bike summit: This week's Hyde Park Happenings (opens the original)

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    Here's what's going on in and around Hyde Park this week. Karaoke Thursdays at Sip & Savor: Sip & Savor hosts its monthly karaoke night in Hyde Park, with singing led by Ari’s Karaoke. Thursday, Sept. 17, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sip & Savor, 5301 S. Hyde Park Blvd. Free. sipandsavorchicago.com/location-hyde-park  Chicago Youth Bike Summit: The first Chicago Youth Bike Summit brings together Chicagoans ages 14 to 22 for youth-led conversations, hands-on activities, group rides and workshops on advoc

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Max Blaisdell, staff writer

    Mayor Johnson stumps for tenant protections as real estate lobby pushes rival plan (opens the original)

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    As rumors swirl about a possible reelection campaign, Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing an ordinance that his administration says will protect tenants but that critics say could hurt small landlords. Johnson made his case Wednesday for the Protecting Renters Ordinance (PRO), a major rewriting of tenant and landlord rules that have not been updated in 40 years. The ordinance includes measures — such as a rental registry — that were championed in recent years by organizers with Southside Togeth

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Max Blaisdell, staff writer

    25 years later, a U. of C. professor struggles to convey what 9/11 changed (opens the original)

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    When Professor Jon Rogowski teaches a course about the presidency at the University of Chicago, he increasingly runs into the same problem: how do you explain the significance of September 11 to students who either weren’t alive that day or were too young to remember it? “There was a visceral and palpable feeling that things had shifted,” Rogowski said, recalling his experience in the fall of 2001. His students today understand executive power mainly through President Donald Trump’s pre

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Max Blaisdell, staff writer

    Mount Carmel gets $1M pledge to permanently endow scholarship (opens the original)

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    A $1 million pledge from a Mount Carmel High School alumnus and his wife will help permanently fund a scholarship that has supported nearly 200 students at the all-boys Catholic school. Don Barry, a 1963 Mount Carmel graduate, and his wife, Peggy, made the founding pledge to endow the James Barda Leadership Award, which provides 20 students each year with $2,000 annual scholarships renewable for all four years. The all-boys Catholic school, located at 6410 S. Dante Ave., is now looking to alumni

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