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Food is love
by Matt Wan The late lunch crowd at the Quench restaurant on 79th between Martin Luther King Drive and Cottage Grove Avenue silently munched away on turkey burgers and fries last Friday afternoon,...
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Greater Grand Crossing
Maggie Sivit In 1853, two trains riding along rival lines collided at what is now the intersection of 75th and South Chicago Avenue. Seeing opportunity in the mangled steel’s violent geometry, Chicago...
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Act II
Claire Hungerford and Kelsey Gee [Show as slideshow] eta Creative Arts Foundation sits on a quiet strip of South Chicago Avenue, in the heart of the South Side. Though dilapidated residences and empty...
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High-Octane Sound
Lauren Hunter Thomas Johnny Drummer wants to know if Lady Cadillac is in the building. A woman at the back of the joint in white go-go boots, ostensibly not Lady Cadillac, calls out to the...
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5 Loaves Eatery
Samantha Jones A brown banner behind a window is the only sign Five Loaves needs. Inside, calming yellow and green walls are the perfect backdrop to a collection of splashy African art that hangs about...
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Eating Right
Rachel Wiseman When I meet Arel Brown, he is in his hairnet and apron, sporting the neon green T-shirt that is the uniform of Eternity Juice Bar & Deli. He is in the middle of preparing food, and...
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Best of the South Side 2012
Jane Fentress Chicago is a city that boasts, and this is our contribution. Our half of the city—the South Side—is many things, and in our annual Best Of issue, we haven’t tried to solve the riddle of...
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Greater Grand Crossing
flickr/Zol87 Just a minute south of Midway Airport, with her seat belt securely fastened and an obsessive glint in her eye, an airplane passenger might notice the nearly perfect right triangle beneath...
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Directing Democracy
IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS AT STAKE, YOU MIGHT HAVE mistaken the 5th Ward Neighborhood Assembly at St. Philip Neri School in South Shore for a small PTA meeting. By 6:40pm, less than two dozen people...
View ArticleThe Lost Stories of ’68
Out of all the documents of the landmark, radical left protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, most people tend to focus on those involving the Youth International Party (more commonly...
View ArticleThe Experimental Grocer
Grand Crossing is parched. However, an oasis stands among dilapidated businesses and a motel that still proudly proclaims color TV. Louis’ Groceries is ready to flood the sprawling South Side food...
View ArticleFried Chicken for the Soul
Down the block from a McDonald’s and Burger King lies the real thing—an authentic dining experience. Captain Hard Times Dining is a center for upscale soul food and a haven for community connection in...
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Africa in America
photo by Temple Shipley It was late on a frigid Wednesday night, and I was stranded miles from home. Immersed in a sea of unfamiliar faces, I was at a loss to ask someone for a ride home. My company...
View ArticlePast the Line
I enter eta Creative Arts’ auditorium to find the curtains open and the stage set. It contains two benches, separated at center by a sturdy metal bar, the kind you might find against a mirror in a...
View ArticleRebellion in 16mm
With an eye toward the past, the Black Cinema House encourages radical filmmakers of the future.Read more →
View ArticleDance, Chance, and Possibility
At the start of Dance 4 Peace last Saturday, the spacious auditorium of the Gary Comer Youth Center, so usually bathed in light coming through its glass walls, went slowly dark in anticipation for the...
View ArticleHouse Keeping - As the lingering foreclosure crisis pushes residents out of...
The Anti-Eviction Campaign scouts out abandoned homes and arranges for people to live in them, matching “homeless people with peopleless homes.” "It's not necessarily about what’s right or what ought...
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