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South Side Weekly is a community-centered news outlet focused on Chicago’s South Side, with an editorial mission rooted in local accountability, cultural storytelling, and social justice.
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Everything is On Fire (opens the original)
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but everyone I love is doing beautiful things, and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, Those are the words I repeated to myself over and over again for most of 2025. I repeated it every day ICE agents entered the Southwest Side, every day I saw my neighbors get kidnapped by masked men, every day videos of abductions took over our screens. In the midst of all the chaos, it’s what kept giving me hope for a better tomorrow, whenever that may be. I believe in a world where neighbors show u
A Slow and Steady Disaster (opens the original)
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I gasped out loud the first time I saw one of Rose Blouin’s photos. In the summer of 1987, Blouin, a local photographer, set out to Washington Park almost every day to photograph the beautiful and the mundane. Picnics, festivals, baseball games, couples cuddling in the grass. The photos are astounding. My poet brain loves them as portraits of the human experience. My Chicagoan brain loves them as historical artifacts of one of my favorite places in the city. But when my sociologist brain sees th
Best Evolution of Community Wellness: Vaqueros Run Club and Hegewisch Nutrition (opens the original)
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Growing up on the Southeast Side, opening windows on warm days often meant petcoke blowing in, a thick black dust from local oil refining. It wasn’t until I was in my late 20s that I learned the Southeast Side was once one of the Midwest’s largest steel producers. But by the 1990s, following major plant closures, the community had been ravaged, economically by the loss of jobs and environmentally by industrial pollution. Metal scrapyards and landfills released more waste, chemicals, and toxic em
Best Place for a Sip of Little Lithuania: Bernice’s Tavern (opens the original)
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There’s been a tavern of some sort at 3238 S. Halsted for nearly a century, but the version of Bernice’s that Bridgeporters and South Siders from all over have come to know and love dates back to 1965. That’s when an establishment called Adam’s Tavern was taken over by an employee named John Badauskas and his wife, Bernice. A half-century and a generation later, their operation remains alive and well in the hands of their son Steve, who took over the business after John passed away in 1998. In a
Best Display of Artists in Community Leadership: Arts Village Sculpture Park (opens the original)
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Vacant lots in Englewood have too often been treated as symbols of what the neighborhood lacks. But at 63rd and May, Englewood Arts Collective (EAC) is asking residents and visitors to see those lots differently. Since 1960, Englewood has experienced decades of population loss. This loss wasn’t simply the result of residents choosing to leave. Disinvestment, a decline in industrial jobs, the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway, foreclosures, and the demolition of deteriorating housing all co
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