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“It does help with slowly giving us back our place in society, not to be looked upon as worthless and homeless.”

Red Line Service advocates for housing through printmaking by connecting professional artists with artists who have experienced homelessness.

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SCOOP: Mayor Johnson has chosen seven nominees for the CCPSA_Chicago—three weeks after the ECPS-mandated deadline and without conducting interviews. The nominees have backgrounds in law, academia, and government.

Reported by Jim Daley
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'Everyone is mad at the wrong people'

The Weekly uncovers the all too familiar challenges that asylum-seekers face in their search for affordable housing. Turns out: many Chicagoans are in the same, vulnerable boat.

✍️ Wendy Wei Leslie Hurtado
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Joining the chorus of antiwar protests across the nation, University of Chicago students have set up their own encampment, and demand that the University divests from its partnerships with Israeli institutions.

✍️ by 博智 kvin hu @bozhikh.bsky.social
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“The referendum results that we saw…people want this...'

CBA organizers fight on after two precincts in the 7th ward voted to pass an ordinance that would address ongoing displacement, in part due to construction of the Obama Presidential Center.

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SCOOP: ShotSpotter kept listening—and providing alerts to police—in cities where contracts had been canceled, according to emails obtained by Jim Daley and Max Blaisdell for the Weekly and WIRED.

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Healing Illinois Launch: In partnership w/local newsrooms The Chicago Defender, @ChiNewsWeekly, Investigative Project on Race and Equity, we're spotlighting #segregation 's legacy in Chicago, supported by Field Foundation & Illinois DHS.

☞ Learn more & explore the stories now live: bit.ly/449vQzU

The aspiring scientist turned socially-engaged artist Andrea Miroslava Ramirez weaves narratives of the Mexican American experience.

Read ‘Mamá, Solo Es Un Florero’ by Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
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Who brought arts and crafts to the session? 👀

Blazing creativity meets bedazzling in the South Side’s underground Safety Meeting, where scrapbookers spark creativity and joints.

Story and photos by Emma Soto
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Stoners are beating the 'lazy' allegations with Chicago’s first and only cannabis-centric running group that emphasizes community, mental wellness, and service.

Read all about Runners High Chicago, story by Molly Morrow
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Happy Holidays! Flip through a copy of our Cannabis issue while you celebrate 🌳🌱

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Brown women are carving out spaces in a market dominated by white men 🍃

Meet the Latina Entrepreneurs Breaking Into the Cannabis Industry, story by Mateo Zapata
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A measure that would give the decision whether to keep Shotspotter to alderpersons is on today’s City Council agenda. South Side Weekly mapped the locations of ShotSpotter sensors and found them in 35 wards. southsideweekly.com/chicago-shotsp…

While there are more than a dozen recreational dispensaries scattered across the North Side—some of which are multiple storefronts of single companies—there are only a handful south of Roosevelt Road.

Mark P. Braboy on 'dispensary disparity' in Chicago ⬇️
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The aspiring scientist turned socially-engaged artist Andrea Miroslava Ramirez weaves narratives of the Mexican American experience.

Read ‘Mamá, Solo Es Un Florero’ by Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales
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'Throughout We Are The Culture, Nettles sets a righteous sense of place where we as Black Chicagoans are constantly in conversation about where we’ve been, where we are, and, perhaps most importantly, where we’re going.'

📝 by Evan F. Moore
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Happy pub day to BLACKBIIRD.

Here’s my South Side Weekly review of her book, We Are The Culture: Black Chicago’s Influence on Everything.

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Please tell anyone you know who uses SNAP/LINK that they can double their buying power for fresh produce & even vegetable plants at many farmers markets + some grocery stores in the Chicago area + across Illinois.

At Puff Paint Pass, DeJa Jovon, owner of Unladylike, offers art therapy paired with healing smoke and killer tunes. Learn all about her unorthodox approach to mental health in her interview with Luz Magdaleno Flores for The Weekly.

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