Atavia Reed

The Southwest Side Organizing Project received City Council approval Wednesday to change the zoning district for the mixed-use building.

Eliseo 'Blue' Pacheco-Cornejo, a Gage Park native and former basketball player, is spearheading the $8 million community center using a Community Development Grant.

"Sub-areas" within neighborhoods like Chatham inspire a strong sense of pride, while in Englewood, neighbors are working to shift negative connotations associated with the area's name.

Leaders at Kennedy-King College and community partners celebrated its reopening after a five-year wait with a three-course meal prepared by Washburne culinary students.

The student-run restaurant at Kennedy-King College closed in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. Leaders have spent the past year redesigning it for Thursday's grand reopening.

In “Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It,” Englewood artist Tonika Lewis Johnson and professor Maria Krysan explore how telling someone not to go to a neighborhood can harm a community.

Members of the Illinois Black Hemp Association gathered in Auburn Gresham Thursday to blast a state bill they said would have harmed local small businesses.

The store closed in 2020, angering neighbors and lawmakers. The new store, which has a focus on fresh fruits and vegetables, was built with help from a network of community partners.

The Mud Theatre Project, a nonprofit founded by a recently exonerated man, collaborated with Restore Justice to produce the hour-long play. The sold-out show premieres Thursday at the Steppenwolf.

The reproductive health education nonprofit's second location caters to young women and families, providing hygiene supplies, clothes, groceries, resumé help and more.