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ince last year’s Best of the South Side (BoSS), a new engagement editor, art director, editor-in-chief, and interim publisher have joined South Side Weekly. So, we appreciate your patience and grace, dear readers. Because this year, more than most, BoSS is brought to you by newbies. Ironically, we newbies have heard—from the hardbitten, dedicated vets—that […]

President Donald Trump’s administration is using a little-known legal motion to remove asylum-seekers without a hearing to unfamiliar, third countries like Ecuador and Uganda.

Johnson voiced support for a citywide moratorium on data centers, but stopped short of opposing the quantum campus.

The Exchange, the Weekly's poetry corner, is a collaborative space celebrating the literary arts.

Following a multi-year case that generated concerns about the rights of the abused to self-defense, Golden pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter for fatally stabbing her partner.

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths.

Insiders resort to creative and desperate measures to keep themselves clean, healthy, and bug-free.

A part of the Chicago Monuments Project, artist Amanda Williams commemorates the dozens of extraordinary people missing from public memory.

Author and civil rights attorney Flint Taylor sat down with former Representative Bobby Rush and former Black Panther Ann Campbell-Kendrick to discuss the assasination and its aftermath.

The Exchange, the Weekly's poetry corner, is a collaborative space celebrating the literary arts.

Teresa Helena Moreno, associate professor and librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago, discusses what we mean by information, how it can appear in archives, and how digitization impacts accessibility.

A public art installation honors the lives lost to the US immigration system.

Head coach Ben Johnson is back at the helm as the team settles in for their first open practice on July 31.

The 575,000-square-foot facility aims to remedy health disparities impacting patients on the South Side.

outh Sider of the Month: Michael Massey, Kansas City Royals (baseball) The South Side Sports Roundup’s first monthly spotlight falls upon professional baseball player Michael Massey, who attended Brother Rice High School on 99th and Pulaski before playing for three years at the University of Illinois. Now in his fourth year in the majors with […]

n a warm Tuesday evening in early July, half a dozen young tap dancers congregated on the upper floor of the Harold Washington Cultural Center in Bronzeville at Making A Difference Dancing Rhythms, Chicago’s very own nonprofit tap dancing institution. The white walls of the tap dance organization, also known as M.A.D.D. Rhythms, were sporadically […]

Kellee E. Warren, associate professor and special collections librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago, discusses the importance of presidential libraries and how the Obama Presidential Center is unique.

What we know about Martinez Duncan’s death in Cook County Jail

Disabled people who live at Cook County Jail face numerous, entrenched challenges, including limited health care and few accommodations

When ICE activity threatened a local taqueria, the city’s underground music scene stepped in to save it.

Pilsen’s new family-owned bar offers a home for punk and alternative DJs.

Ava V. Marie and Gemini Jynx opened the Pynk Portal Pole Sanctuary last year, a pole and dance studio for adults of all sizes and abilities.

Menace4Hire is building a fashion and music practice that sidesteps gatekeepers.

Housing cooperatives come in all shapes and sizes, but provide residents with affordable homes, a sense of community, and agency over their living situations.

South Side artist Brian Herrera talks about his art form, Mesofuturismo, and the world it emerges from.