South Side

Lakeside Alliance, in partnership with the carpenters' union, hosted an interactive workshop, offering students mentorship and career exposure in carpentry, engineering, and construction at...

Team Members for Equal Hope (Photo Credit: Marshelle Sanders).  In the fight against breast cancer, the critical message is free mammograms and services for the...

A Chicago Defender article from 1946 that chronicles the Hemmons family becoming unhoused. This is Part Three of the Chicago Defender’s series Black and Unhoused:...

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.

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

Contributed by LinkedIn On the latest episode of “How I Got Here” on LinkedIn, Common sits down with LinkedIn’s Senior Editor Maya Pope-Chappell to discuss...

In 2013, Camesha Jones was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after being hospitalized more than once. When she got out of the hospital, she searched...

Ground Breaking Ceremony For University of Chicago South Side Trauma Center After long and tedious protests and countless pleas to bring a trauma center to...

       "These people make up the work force in Chicago and have found a means to manage their lives, pay their bills and take...