News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwvw2aa7lx2rAt the end of August, Theatre Y held a two-day release party for Controlled Burn, the new record by Marvin Tate. ✍️: milo bosh https://southsideweekly.com/best-listening-session-marvin-tate-at-theatre-y/02 Oct 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvw2aa7lx2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwqw3zia4f2bAt the height of Operation Midway Blitz, more than twenty people in our community were routinely abducted each day. ✍️: Karina Mireya 🖌️: Atlan Arceo-Witzl https://southsideweekly.com/everything-is-on-fire/30 Sep 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqw3zia4f2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwoesyfanw2pTo passing tourists, the building remains a majestic, mysterious fixture of the neighborhood. But for newly arrived immigrants, stepping through its doors feels like coming home. ✍️: Yonggang Xiao https://southsideweekly.com/best-century-old-community-hub-pui-tak-center/29 Sep 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwoesyfanw2phttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwlyn275ys22This community is experiencing a renaissance, and amidst it all is The Black On Black Love Community Garden. ✍️: Orion Meadows https://southsideweekly.com/best-multi-generational-garden-the-black-on-black-love-community-garden/28 Sep 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlyn275ys22https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwj2v267lx2cA Slow and Steady Disaster As Chicago’s Black population has steadily declined, the South Side of our parents’ generation is shifting beneath our feet. ✍️: Eve L. Ewing. 🎥: Rose Blouin https://southsideweekly.com/a-slow-and-steady-disaster/27 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwj2v267lx2chttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwhh3m3tc22jA neighborhood changes by what gets built and who moves in. It also changes by who it loses. Back of the Yards has been answering this change with the kind of party the ancestors turn up at. ✍️: E’mon Lauren https://southsideweekly.com/best-blessed-bike-ride-black-august-ancestral-bike-ride/26 Sep 2026 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwhh3m3tc22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwgkgheoag27Just down the block from the South Side YMCA and around the corner from a Jewel-Osco, Da Book Joint is busy, bright, well-organized, and well-stocked, serving readers who would otherwise have to travel outside of South Shore to peruse new titles for adults and for kids. ✍️: Jill Petty https://southsideweekly.com/best-mother-daughter-business-partnership-da-book-joint/26 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgkgheoag27https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mwesp6qzpa2jBest of the South Side 2026! This year, we hope features and longer neighborhood profiles will prompt deep thinking about this place we call home. How are we doing, collectively? What patterns are static in the region, and what things are changing? How are our communities evolving, over time? https://southsideweekly.com/best-of-the-south-side-2026/25 Sep 2026 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwesp6qzpa2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mvsxjmbcei24President 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. ✍️: R. Taylor Robinson and Borderless Mag https://southsideweekly.com/seems-like-a-betrayal-they-fled-violence-followed-u-s-asylum-rules-and-still-faced-deportation/18 Sep 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsxjmbcei24https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mvbmmgf6jj2nJoin us in celebrating the public release of Jail Solidarity Network’s inside-out archive! For the last three years, people incarcerated in Cook County Jail and outsiders in Chicago have recorded their conversations. Now, they're ready to share these stories. 11 Sep 2026 22:31 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbmmgf6jj2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mufwkoceue2jJohnson voiced support for a citywide moratorium on data centers, but stopped short of opposing the quantum campus. ✍️: by Max Blaisdell and Hyde Park Herald https://southsideweekly.com/south-side-residents-press-johnson-to-halt-quantum-campus/31 Aug 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufwkoceue2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3muaaq4zq6324Poetry for your Saturday morning! Have a poem in response to this issue's prompt? Submit through this link to possibly be featured! bit.ly/ssw-exchange Heaven by Jalen Kobayashi https://southsideweekly.com/the-exchange-an-ode-to/29 Aug 2026 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3muaaq4zq6324https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mu3fhnzsgk2lFollowing 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. ✍️: Dave Byrnes https://southsideweekly.com/domestic-abuse-survivor-keshia-golden-accepts-plea-deal/27 Aug 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3fhnzsgk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mtosidetff2lDesigned to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths. ✍️: Shannon Heffernan and The Marshall Project https://southsideweekly.com/a-prison-on-fire/22 Aug 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtosidetff2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mthdcgmrrf26Insiders resort to creative and desperate measures to keep themselves clean, healthy, and bug-free. ✍️: Micah Clark Moody and Meghna Anand https://southsideweekly.com/pest-control-notified/19 Aug 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthdcgmrrf26https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mt5ocfvz5n2nA part of the Chicago Monuments Project, artist Amanda Williams commemorates the dozens of extraordinary people missing from public memory. ✍️: Marc C. Monagham and Hyde Park Herald https://southsideweekly.com/other-washingtons-installation-brings-new-histories-to-king-drive/15 Aug 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5ocfvz5n2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3msy6b433252pSouth Side Weekly and the Hyde Park Herald are seeking a passionate and systems-oriented leader to head South Side Media Works, our parent nonprofit. Apply by September 8th. Learn more about the role and apply through this link: https://southsideweekly.com/executive-director/ 13 Aug 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msy6b433252phttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3msr3ya2zfp2pAuthor and civil rights attorney Flint Taylor sat down with former Representative Bobby Rush and former Black Panther Ann Campbell-Kendrick to discuss the assassination and its aftermath. Author ✍️: Max Blasidell and Hyde Park Herald Read more here: https://southsideweekly.com/new-haymarket-book-rewrites-the-narrative-of-fred-hamptons-murder/10 Aug 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3msr3ya2zfp2phttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mshbtljfbb26The Exchange, the Weekly’s poetry corner, is a collaborative space celebrating the literary arts. Read more to hear from our new engagement editor, Alycia Kamil Moaton, and learn how to submit your work for a chance to be featured in our next issue. ✍️: Alycia Kamil Moaton Read more here: https://southsideweekly.com/reintroducing-the-exchange/07 Aug 2026 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshbtljfbb26https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3ms7mciy6tg2oAsk an Expert: What Are Archives For? 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. ✍️: Ellie Gilbert-Bair Read more below https://southsideweekly.com/ask-an-expert-what-are-archives-for/03 Aug 2026 23:04 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7mciy6tg2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3ms4hynrkmr2pAt the corner of 18th and Wood Streets in Pilsen, Herrera wheat-pasted a portrait of Salgado Araujo alongside a list of people killed in detention and encounters with immigration authorities since the start of the second Trump administration. ✍️: Jocelyn Martinez Rosales Read more here: https://southsideweekly.com/remember-their-names/02 Aug 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms4hynrkmr2phttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mrxdbcxs5s2qWho could forget the magic that was the Bears’ last season? The 2025-26 campaign stood on the shakiest of legs before landing an 11-6 final record and a thrilling playoff win against the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field. ✍️: Malachi Hayes Illustration: Lily Sundsbak https://southsideweekly.com/the-chicago-bears-gear-up-for-a-smashing-season/31 Jul 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxdbcxs5s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mruyris2er2kThe 575,000-square-foot facility aims to remedy health disparities impacting patients on the South Side. ✍️: Max Blasidell @hydeparkherald https://southsideweekly.com/university-of-chicago-medicine-to-open-freestanding-cancer-center-in-april-2027/30 Jul 2026 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruyris2er2khttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mrn2ojqy3i2lSouth Siders are hot picks in the NBA Draft, three Sox players star in this week’s MLB All-Star Game, and the Bears Stadium is still in limbo. ✍️: Malachi Hayes https://southsideweekly.com/south-side-sports-roundup-july-2026/27 Jul 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrn2ojqy3i2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mrku66idp52jAs M.A.D.D. Rhythms rings in 25 years of operations, Barrett is looking forward to everything it will be doing this year—and the future of the institution. ✍️: Matt Brady Read more here: https://southsideweekly.com/bronzevilles-m-a-d-d-rhythms-celebrates-25-years-of-fostering-tap-dancing/26 Jul 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrku66idp52jhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mri536kshu2dAsk An Expert: Presidential Libraries The Weekly sat down with Kellee Warren to break down what presidential libraries are, why they matter, and how the Obama Presidential Center is distinct. ✍️: Ellie Gilbert-Bair Read more here https://southsideweekly.com/ask-an-expert-presidential-libraries/25 Jul 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mri536kshu2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mrdukx2izr2nhttps://southsideweekly.com/sixteen-minutes-in-a-burning-cell/ Based on FOIAs and leaked records, this story describes what we know about how Martinez Duncan died in Cook County Jail last November. ✍️: Micah Clark Moody and Harley Pomper Illustration: Riley Hannon Read more here:23 Jul 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdukx2izr2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mpjvilpbdl25The Obama Presidential Center and Library is open. Read reporter Leigh Giangreco’s coverage here: https://southsideweekly.com/obama-presidential-center-opens-on-juneteenth/30 Jun 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjvilpbdl25https://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mpjeso557r2pThe latest article from Doing Time, a series that investigates the daily life of people navigating court and jail, was published in our Comics Issue. Read here: https://southsideweekly.com/clothesline/30 Jun 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjeso557r2phttps://bsky.app/profile/southsideweekly.bsky.social/post/3mpjdl25l7m2rHave you had a chance to check out our comics issue? Check it out here: https://southsideweekly.com/the-comics-issue/30 Jun 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:heb66xilcxfl254pmrofvwmo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjdl25l7m2r