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 to your recent article about Illinois State Senator Robert Peters’ calls for criminal justice reform …
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 economically, racially and age diverse community through affordable housing options. This task has been made ev…
If you read the letters in the Herald, you can't help but realize this Obama Presidential Center in the park is a very poor plan from the start. There is simply no reason to plow up our historic, Olmsted-designed park when vacant lots lie all over the neighborhood.
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I had high hopes, when it was announced that the National Park Service (NPS) would be doing an environmental assessment of the Obama Presidential Center. At last, I thought, some scientific observations, of the impact of the OPC on the Park, would be done. Sadly, this assessment ignores the …
Maggie Brown, her voice channeling Abbey Lincoln and OBJ
The most important thing on your ballot this year might not even be on your radar. If you’re like me, you’re hearing about the Presidential race all the time. (Don’t get me wrong: that’s super important. But there is not much doubt that Biden will easily carry Illinois.)
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I noticed with great interest the ironic comments this month of architects Williams and Tsien bemoaning the “supertalls” that have invaded the area around the Frederick Olmsted-designed Central Park in New York.
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Complete coverage of City Council actions is on Pages 6 and 7.
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Readers, with talk of artificial intelligence being rather pervasive in this time of online journalism, it seems that a lot of work remains. In the last few weeks, the Herald has sent two instances of Breaking News reports in which the story was not included, and on Labor Day the Evening Dig…
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An open letter to President and Mrs. Barack Obama,
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Over the last five years of so, we have been breathing coke ash from the Koch Brothers mountain of coke ash on the Southeast Side. Word is that it has been removed, but the blowing soot has only begun to diminish.
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Whose plans these are, I think I know,
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To the Editor and Hyde Park and surrounding community:
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