Dec 17, 2024 · This story was co-published with The TRiiBE.. O n Monday, the City Council passed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed 2025 budget in a 27–23 vote. It was the Johnson administration’s fourth budget proposal this season, which began with the mayor initially proposing a $300 million property tax increase, followed by a $150 million tax increase, and most recently, a $68.5 million property tax ...

Jan 16, 2025 · At the Chicago City Council Budget Hearing for the Department of Law, the city’s corporation counsel, Mary B. Richardson, introduced the office’s fourteen staff members attending. Her presentation noted that the 2025 budget was reduced by $45.9 million from 2024, the number of full-time employees by twenty-one (to 406 from 427), and personal services cost by …

Jan 21, 2025 · Community newspaper by and for Chicago's South Side. Arts, Culture, Politics. Est. 2013.

Dec 23, 2024 · The working group hotly debated the question of ShotSpotter’s accuracy. Some members of the group voiced their support for the technology. One said, “Gun violence is personal to me,” adding that their house had been set on fire for reporting gunshots.

Jan 12, 2024 · C hicago’s missing person crisis is a Black issue. City Bureau and the Invisible Institute recently released a two-year investigation into how Chicago police handle missing person cases that shows the disproportionate impact on Black women and girls, how police have mistreated family members or delayed cases, and how poor police data is making the problem harder to solve.

Oct 29, 2024 · This story was co-produced in partnership with The TRiiBE.. A breakdown of how Chicago planned to use security funds for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) shows that nearly half of the $75 million the Department of Justice (DOJ) gave the city went to the Chicago Police Department (CPD).. If the DOJ approves the expenditures, CPD will be reimbursed about $35.5 million, or 47% of the ...

Feb 25, 2022 · O riginally intended to replace overcrowded, deeply impoverished neighborhoods, Chicago’s midcentury public housing developments initially offered significantly better living conditions to residents, and for a time were, as author Dawn Turner told the South Side Weekly, “bastions” of stability that “conferred dignity on the residents.”. But subsequent decades of disinvestment and ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Leer en español. This article was originally published by Borderless Magazine.. W ith President-elect Donald Trump taking office, organizations nationwide have been preparing for his hardline immigration promises with Know Your Rights workshops.. Immigration advocates hope to equip immigrants with critical information about their rights in light of Trump’s plans to carry out mass ...

I f you’re thinking, “Huh, it’s been a while since I saw one of these…” you’d be right. Our last Best of the South Side issue, which celebrated ten years of BoSS, came out in 2022. After iterating on the same formula for a decade, we decided to take a break and imagine how we can crank the dial up for the next decade of Bests.

Nov 7, 2024 · M any of us know about the Harlem Globetrotters, a South Side all-Black basketball team, and Abe Saperstein, its Jewish, Chicago-based promoter. The Globetrotters had its impetus at Bronzeville’s Wendell Phillips High School (now William Phillips Academy High School) and went on to become a worldwide sensation that entertained millions.