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The Urban Growers Collective (UGC) Provides Emergency Food Access During COVID-19

The Urban Growers Collective, (UGC) has shifted to emergency food distribution to shelters and health centers and created no-contact produce pick-up on their South...

The Pandemic Did Not Pause Their Purpose: Meet Three Black Women with NEW and Thriving Dining Spots in the South Suburbs

The road to entrepreneurship is like going on a roller coaster ride for the first time. It's filled with excitement, fear of the unknown,...

Naturally Boosting Your Immune System to Stay Healthy All Year.

The summer season comes with many challenges. Changes in the weather may lead to a weakened resistance to germs.  As the world still fights...

Rose’, Cabernet, Chardonnay…Has Wine Become the New Comfort Food?

Wine has always been a popular drink. It comes in an attractive package with health benefits, a variety of flavors, and it’s just good!...

Small Business Series: Three Black Chefs That Everyone Should Know

When it comes to food, people often think of it as the not so talked about, fairly unknown, sixth love language. It has the...

Food Deserts Continue to Plague the Southside

If you take a drive down 63rd, 71st, 75th, 79th and 83rd between Stony Island (East) and Damen (West),you will find a surplus of “food and liquor” stores every three blocks and "food marts" in every gas station. In fact, on 79th street, there is not one supermarket from Lake Shore Drive to Pulaski. This disparity of available quality, nutritious food choices is called a food desert and has plagued low-income, urban neighborhoods for several years.

5 Must-See Southside Neighborhoods 

It never fails. Whenever I hear people discuss the best spots to visit in Chicago, most times, they immediately mention places north of Roosevelt...

Entrepreneurs Open Bronzeville Restaurant

  Three entrepreneurs celebrated the grand opening for their second Dock’s restaurant, this one in Bronzeville, on August 14. The restaurant, located at 321 E. 35th...

CHICAGO CULTURAL ALLIANCE TO HOST “INHERIT CHICAGO” 

Over 30 Cultural Centers and Heritage Museums will host 20 Intercultural Programs in Neighborhoods Across the City  As immigrants’ fears boil and the nation reels...

Dining on the 5 Kick-Off

On, July 13, Greater Chatham Initiatives (GCI), hosted opening festivities for its Third Annual Dining on the 5 event. Opening remarks were made by...
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