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The shuttered Showplace Icon theater in the South Loop will reopen, but other long-closed movie theaters in Black neighborhoods have yet to find a second life.
After a health scare, Alden Loury took up a vegan diet and prioritized his well-being. “Time is perhaps the commodity we squander most,” he writes.
Let’s focus attention on a sustainable school funding model that ensures every student can get a quality education, without drama over budgets and contract talks with the Chicago Teachers Union.
Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have promised to bring back manufacturing and are targeting Rust Belt states. The demographic they’re missing: Black Americans.
Fact check: Chicago has more murders than other U.S. cities, but does not top the list of cities with the highest murder rates, or homicides per capita.
Race, market demand and commercial interests are inextricably linked, especially in Chicago.
Some short-sighted, bigoted people across the country continue to cite Blackness itself as the primary cause of violent crime.
When it feels like things can’t get any worse, I think back to how I felt on June 3, 1992 — and the journey that taught me about resilience and tenacity.
A documentary series on Black Chicagoans’ struggles to gain equal access to good jobs could help to push back against those who say there are jobs that no Americans want — forgetting about a pool of Black workers that remains underutilized.
The neck-and-neck Democratic race between O’Neill Burke and Clayton Harris III was marked by huge margins at the precinct level, data show.