South Side Weekly

For and by Chicago’s South Side. Established 2013. Arts, culture, and politics reporting. Send tips [email protected]

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With the most exhilarating and successful postseason in two decades in the books, it’s time to take a look back at the White Sox’s 2026 campaign—and more importantly, what’s next for the team.

✍️: Malachi Hayes
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Over the years, We Sow We Grow has grown into a full-fledged urban farm.

✍️: Jermaine Nolen

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For Best of the South Side, South Side Weekly interviewed author and Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey about some of his favorite buildings in Kenwood.

✍️: Lee Bey

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Here’s what happening in Hyde Park this weekend!
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[Stephanie Lulay @slulay2]

Our Chicago School Board Voter Guide is here! 🗳️💪

All 21 Chicago Board of Education members are up for election for the first time ever. @BlockClubCHI @chalkbeatCHI @WBEZ @Suntimes collaborated over months to produce a multilingual guide.

Check it out: https://t.co/MHW0ikrPGN

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For 32 years, the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) has advocated for residents affected by rapid industrial development on Chicago’s Southwest Side.

✍️: Sydney Richardson

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Join us!

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We've got a school board president candidate forum double feature tonight!

Tune in LIVE at 6pm to @chalkbeatCHI @HydeParkHerald @SouthSideWeekly @UChiPolitics forum moderated by @reemadamin and Max Blaisdell. https://t.co/onMkZLqoiB

[Becky Vevea @beckyvevea]

We've got a school board president candidate forum double feature tonight!

Tune in LIVE at 6pm to @chalkbeatCHI @HydeParkHerald @SouthSideWeekly @UChiPolitics forum moderated by @reemadamin and Max Blaisdell. https://t.co/onMkZLqoiB

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23-year-old Jordan Wyer specializes in bold colors and freestyle braiding, and receives client inquiries from across the country.

✍️: Amaris Edwards
📸: Elizabeth Rosales
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Chicago Community Jail Support shows up outside the jail to help anybody and everybody being released late at night get home safe and start reintegrating.

✍️: Jo Sabath
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Wooden’s exhibit, “Transfiguration,” a successor of her first exhibit, “God Complex,” included a short film of the same name that she wrote, directed, and animated, as well as a zine featuring her poetry and thoughts.

✍️: Jocelyn Martinez Rosales
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Even as Bridgeport’s Lithuanian population has dwindled, at Bernice’s, the neighborhood’s connection to the tiny northern European country of under three million people remains strong.

✍️: Malachi Hayes
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Mark your calendar for the second weekend of October when the Hyde Park Used Book Sale returns to Kimbark Plaza.

✍️: Dierdre Robinson
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For nearly 140 years, a church has dominated the corner of 113th and King Drive.

✍️ & 📸: Cristen Brown
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At the end of August, Theatre Y held a two-day release party for Controlled Burn, the new record by Marvin Tate.

✍️: milo bosh

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At the height of Operation Midway Blitz, more than twenty people in our community were routinely abducted each day.

✍️: Karina Mireya
🖌️: Atlan Arceo-Witzl

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To passing tourists, the building remains a majestic, mysterious fixture of the neighborhood. But for newly arrived immigrants, stepping through its doors feels like coming home.

✍️: Yonggang Xiao
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This resplendent site is the handiwork of many green thumbs in Auburn Gresham, but most especially South Side transplant Valerie Goodloe, a documentarian, community advocate, and educator.

✍️: Orion Meadows

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A Slow and Steady Disaster 

As Chicago’s Black population has steadily declined, the South Side of our parents’ generation is shifting beneath our feet.

✍️: Eve L. Ewing
📸: Rose Blouin
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A neighborhood changes by what gets built and who moves in. It also changes by who it loses. Back of the Yards has been answering this change with the kind of party the ancestors turn up at.

✍️: E’mon Lauren
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