On a bench in Jackson Park, Darrell Wirth looked up from his newspapers on the unseasonably warm fall day on which it seemed inevitable that President Donald Trump would not win reelection to say, "The only good thing is maybe he's gone, or at least we don't have to subject ourselves to his lies."
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Kenwood artist Dorian Sylvain, who recently won a $30,000 grant from 3Arts, has been chosen as one of the city’s artists-in-residence through a new pilot program.
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-2nd) got two and a half hours of sleep after an "agonizing" election night, turning in at 4 a.m.
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In spite of new regulations that would allow them to take part in sports during COVID-19, the students on the Kenwood girls cross-country team elected not to compete during the fall season.
The Kenwood Broncos won’t play any football games this fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but some sports will be played.
Kenwood Academy has named Mike Irvin to be the Broncos head boys basketball coach. He succeeds Justin Bowen, who left to pursue a job at the college level at the end of the 2020 season.
While the city's larger theaters have put their live seasons on hold during the pandemic and presented mostly educational programming online, some of the small storefront ensembles are forging…
A virtual book talk hosted by the Silver Room on Wednesday night brought over 70 participants — mostly women, mostly women of color, and a few from across the world in London and Australia — t…
I don't really like scary stories. Poe is included in this Halloween mix of two virtual plays and two radio broadcasts because it seemed remiss to exclude him, but my preference is for the sci-fi.
This fall, Illinoisans will have the opportunity to vote yes on the Fair Tax constitutional amendment. The Fair Tax amendment would eliminate the requirement for a single rate “flat tax” and l…
I am a resident of Hyde Park, a former student at the University of Chicago, and a member of Sunrise Chicago, a local hub of the national youth-led Sunrise Movement. I am writing in response t…
For more than a decade the Coalition for Equitable Community Development (CECD) has been the primary neighborhood voluntary organization advocating for maintaining and expanding an economicall…
