Mayor Brandon Johnson recently announced that the One Summer Chicago (OSC) program employed nearly 28,000 young people during the summer of 2024, marking a...
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the Chicago Police Department 15th District CAPS office hosted a mobile COVID-19 vaccination event in South...
41.8949⁰ N, 87.7654⁰ W. To some, these numbers may not mean much, but to others, this is their home. This is the location that family and friends join together to exist as a community. Austin, Chicago’s largest neighborhood, has a rich history beyond the stories that are commonly heard. The history of Austin is as vast as the community itself. However, often that history is shadowed by a few stories that others may share about the community. Sasha Phyars-Burgess, a Black Metropolis Research Consortium fellow and full-time visiting artist in the Photography department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has spent the past several months trying to change the narrative surrounding the community of Austin through her photographs.
Laughter and cheers reverberated inside the Austin neighborhood’s By The Hand Club For Kids in celebration of an unlikely cause - reading.
About 100 exuberant...
These Kids Are Getting One Today
Join over one hundred By The Hand children, first through sixth-graders who will compete in an elimination playoff that...
Why not help the youth that are in need by attending the Peacewalker's orientation. Peacewalker, a not-for-profit organization has devoted its energy to passionately...
Get IT for your future
By Ken Hare
Chicago Defender Staff Writer
A job readiness and training program aimed at helping Black women has been called a...
By the time a familiar Chicago columnist dropped the news that former Chicago Urban League President and Illinois U.S. Senate candidate, Andrea Zopp would...
