This summer, our fellowship team is reporting on the Southwest Side neighborhood and its relationship with industrial polluters.
We talked to marketgoers on the South and West Sides about their favorite produce garden tips and why they shop at farmers markets.
This summer, one of City Bureau’s fellowship teams is exploring environmental justice on the Southeast Side.
For the immigrant farmers of Catatumbo Cooperative Farm, working on land brings them closer to home.
Los organizadores de la coalición ‘Stop General Iron’, hablan sobre la sanación y su visión para el sureste de la ciudad.
Molly Costello uses art, seeds, and story to weave our way back into all the ways that connect us.
Stop General Iron organizers talk about healing and their vision for the Southeast Side.
Nancy Bartekian co-founded a local anti-colonial, anti-borders youth collective, SWANA Chicago (SouthWest Asia and North Afrika), that wants to decolonize language, hearts and minds.
On national news, Lightfoot presents herself as a progressive queer Black woman—but does she truly understand the Black liberation struggle?
Dos músicos locales construyeron un santuario llamado Casa Al-Fatiha para solicitantes de asilo LGBTQ.
Taylor Moon prophesies a beautiful journey of Black spiritual healing in Chicago.
At Casa Al-Fatiha in Logan Square, two local musicians built a sanctuary for LGBTQ asylum seekers.
Alycia Kamil cultivates joy, fights external pressures and burnout as she organizes and heals Black Chicago youth.
Aya-Nikole Cook offers wellness services on the South Side that are historically unavailable for Black and brown Chicagoans.
Chiara Francesca believes trauma-informed acupuncture is communal care.
Tayo Mbande and conspirators made Love Packages to support Black parents as a supreme labor of love and a lesson in equity.
Jennifer Pagán explores how healing work has transformed her organizing and protest.
Monica Trinidad creates safer communities with her movement posters.
The TRiiBE: Many Black and brown Chicagoans find themselves in a conundrum: sacrifice communal ties by moving miles away to neighborhoods with abundant resources, or sacrifice safety and living wage jobs to stay close to home.
Casi un año después de la pandemia, los inquilinos continúan con dificultades; hay medidas que residentes y legisladores pueden tomar para minimizar el impacto.