2025年1月30日 · Community newspaper by and for Chicago's South Side. Arts, Culture, Politics. Est. 2013.

2024年12月23日 · The working group hotly debated the question of ShotSpotter’s accuracy. Some members of the group voiced their support for the technology. One said, “Gun violence is personal to me,” adding that their house had been set on fire for reporting gunshots.

2024年11月20日 · The Weekly is using pseudonyms for the people interviewed in this story.. T he bus ride to Wadsworth, a shuttered elementary school on the South Side, was another stop in a more than 4,000-mile journey from the other side of the world. Many of the people on the bus had traveled one of the world’s deadliest migration routes to reach the United States. . Then they were relocated to Chicago as ...

2024年12月19日 · O n Wednesday, seven people whose loved ones died while being held at Cook County Jail gave testimony at a meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners’ Criminal Justice Committee. Family members’ testimony focused their experiences with how the Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) operated, while representatives from the …

2025年1月16日 · I llinois lawmakers in predominantly Latinx communities vow to stand up for their constituents against President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.. Trump has appointed Thomas Homan, who was director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under his first term, to become the next “border czar,” an informal and unelected position that will monitor border security and make ...

2024年12月17日 · A s states and cities were squeezed by federal cutbacks across the board, they found that “mental health was an easy line item to cut,” Snedeker said. “And the city would blame the state and the state would blame the city, and the mental health clients would pay the price.” The coalition worked for a decade to keep the City’s clinics open, “and many years we were successful, but ...

I f you’re thinking, “Huh, it’s been a while since I saw one of these…” you’d be right. Our last Best of the South Side issue, which celebrated ten years of BoSS, came out in 2022. After iterating on the same formula for a decade, we decided to take a break and imagine how we can crank the dial up for the next decade of Bests.

2025年1月13日 · A coalition of Police District Council (PDC) members from across the city are calling on 14th PDC member David Orlikoff to resign, citing a pattern of troubling behavior. In December, nineteen council members representing thirteen of the city’s twenty-two police districts signed a letter asking Orlikoff to resign by the end of 2024. When he did not, several called for his resignation during ...

2024年10月11日 · September 10. What is the City planning for the Pilsen Industrial Redevelopment Project area? The Chicago Community Development Commission learned more about the City’s goals in negotiating an agreement. The redevelopment would include a new eight-story building with ninety-eight units of only affordable multifamily housing called …

2024年4月4日 · Ald. Desmon Yancy, whose 5th Ward abuts Taylor’s and includes parts of Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore, told the Weekly he was not consulted in the mayor’s decision to cancel the contract, nor was he aware of the mayor involving any other alderpersons who have ShotSpotter in their wards. There are eighty-one ShotSpotter sensors in the 5th Ward.