Crain's Chicago Business2d
Chicago faces out-migration crisis as Black families seek better opportunities and safety elsewhere
“From the folks I know that have moved South, it’s just an easier, less stressful life,” says Ja’Net Defell, CEO of Community ...
Missing woman last seen in Chicago’s Hegewisch neighorhood, police say
Chicago police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing woman who was last seen in the city’s Hegewisch ...
Crain's Chicago Business2d
Commentary: Chicago's Southland lays the ground for population regrowth
The manufacturing development post-WWII was a major pull for Black Southerners to Chicagoland ... As such, the SDA is ...
Evanston/Skokie School D65 was asked to consider pausing school in historically Black area: memo
Memos between the board of education for Evanston Skokie School District 65, its financial consultant, its superintendent and ...
KCRW6d
The history of racializing fast food as Black
Why was fast food so dense in black neighborhoods? How did that happen when it started ... on the dire conditions of the stockyards and the meat packing houses of Chicago. So there are a lot of food ...
How one Brooklyn neighborhood became instrumental in the rise of the New York Mafia: ‘Everyone paid. Those who didn’t were offed’
Red Hook is best known to today’s New Yorkers for the blue and yellow glow of its IKEA store, pulling in urban furniture ...
Why Kamala Harris Lost Michigan — And Another Democrat Won
It's not hard to spot some important clues for why Harris lost a few extra votes that a candidate like Elissa Slotkin didn’t.
Capital B2d
In the Shadow of the Obama Center, Chicago Residents Fight Displacement
You deserve to live wherever you want to live in the city of Chicago, and that needs to start in Black neighborhoods.” Capital B is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to uncovering important ...
Opinion: My grandfather spent his life confronting hate. Now I'm continuing his legacy.
Hateful rhetoric animated the return of Donald Trump to the White House. But through my grandfather's memory, I know what I ...
Opinion: My grandfather was inspired by our multifaith coalition. I'm continuing this work.
Hateful rhetoric animated the return of Donald Trump to the White House. But through my grandfather's memory, I know what I ...
blockclubchicago3d
Monday Coffee, A Black-Owned Coffee Shop, Opens In North Lawndale’s New Community Center
“It’s important for Black people, Brown people ... was funded by $100,000 in crowdfunding and nearly $700,000 in awards from ...
Black and Latino families displaced from Palm Springs neighborhood reach $27M tentative settlement
Black and Latino families who were pushed out of a Palm Springs neighborhood in the 1960s reached a $27 million tentative settlement agreement with the city that will ...