South Side Weekly – the South Side’s award-winning alternative newspaper covering arts, culture, and politics – is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to lead and manage our newsroom. In its 12th year, the ...

As the Layout Editor at South Side Media Works, you will work across the organization to assist the South Side Weekly and the Hyde Park Herald with their layout and production needs. This will include ...

This investigation is the first in a series of projects that will document and explore public housing on the South Side. If you have tips or suggestions about coverage, email ...

This is post 1 of 6 in the series “FIRSTHAND: SEGREGATION” Chicago is one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Over the last century, an array of political and cultural forces have ...

This article was a finalist for the 2018 “Best Education Reporting in a Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine” Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club Harper High School is the oldest ...

Hundreds of nail holes pepper the dark-brown wood paneled walls of the repurposed 1920s brownstone. Each indentation serves as a kind of signature for every Black artist whose work has been exhibited ...

Ton Farm. Courtesy of the collection of Larry McClellan. 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 ...

Within a year of the World’s Columbian Exhibition’s closure, a large fire razed most of the buildings, which gave Olmsted the opportunity in 1895 to create this revised general plan for Jackson Park—a ...

John Doe is a Black, male teenager from North Lawndale. He is in the Chicago Police Department (CPD)’s controversial gang affiliation database. He has a petty rap sheet, with four drug-related arrests ...

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing. The 150-unit apartment building at 7500 S ...