Project H.O.O.D. is transforming Chicago's South Side with the $40M Robert R. McCormick Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center (Photo Credit: Lanette Warbington).
A powerful moment...
The $7 billion development planned near the United Center cleared its first hurdle Thursday with unanimous approval from the Chicago Plan Commission. Named the...
Photo Credit: Metro Centric - Queensbridge Houses, CC BY 2.0
By Jennifer Porter Gore
This article was originally published on Word In Black.
Over the weekend, President-elect Trump...
Mayor Brandon Johnson and some young attendees at the ribbon cutting for the new South Side Sanctuary in Bronzeville (Photo Credit: Lanette Warbington).
Cecilia Cuff,...
Bally’s Beginning Site Prep for Demolition for Fall 2026 Opening (All Renderings: HKS).
Bally’s Corporation (NYSE: BALY or “Bally’s”) today announced a refreshed Bally’s Chicago...
by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Public transit systems face daunting challenges across the U.S., from pandemic ridership losses to traffic congestion, fare evasion and...
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.
