Music from the Netup Cafe
“I’m a gospel artist with a kick.” That’s how Sharnay Dupont introduced herself to the patrons at Bronzeville’s Netup Café this Sunday. She beamed at the crowd, quickly tuned her guitar, and started...
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Feel Like Going Home
photo by Taro Matsuno “Hello, hello, hello!” Chris Toepfer calls into the dusty dark from atop his ladder, but nothing stirs. Broken glass lies at the top of the stoop, before the painted wood panels...
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After 137 years, St. James Church is scheduled for demolition this April. The structure is too weak—its buttresses are no longer strong enough to the support now crumbling vaulted ceiling, which has...
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Behind the CPS Closures
Over 2,000 people marched on Daley Plaza, though the exact size of the crowd has become one more politicized figure. Photos by Bea Malsky [Show as slideshow] On March 21, Chicago Public Schools...
View ArticleRadical Hospitality - Urban Village Church and the most segregated hour in...
Urban Village might seem like another church in a neighborhood already full of churches, but it is determined to set itself apart from the regimented, traditional ways in which Christianity is...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of Mount Olympus
It may be some time before the Michael Reese Hospital site is developed, though as long as the city continues to own the property, the clock is ticking.Read more →
View ArticleA Sweet Saturday Night
In an elegant mansion on King Drive, Bernard and Denise Loyd opened their home for Saturday Night Sweets, a micro-funding art event curated by the Revival Arts Collective.Read more →
View ArticleSmall Talk and Sandwiches
About ten minutes before State Representative Christian Mitchell’s first open house last Saturday, a tall man walks in with a large tray of sandwiches.Read more →
View ArticleAt This Juncture - In Bronzeville, an organizer and a developer plot a course...
Like much of Bronzeville, 51st Street is at a kind of crossroads. Many neighbors perceive things as having vaguely gotten better, but exactly what is going into the gradual changes of “the strip" is...
View ArticleAt Home in the Theater - Front-row access to Chicago homes
The Home Theater Festival, which has just wrapped up its inaugural year in Chicago, consists of a two-week long series of gatherings in which a variety of art, music, and dance performances are staged...
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