photo by Element5 Digital Every four years leading up to November, Americans become students of electoral practices, how best to achieve true democracy, and how the way we do things…
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photo by Ted Eytan A video of Florida State Senator Mike Bennett is doing the rounds on social media leading up to the election, and for good reason. In it,…
On August 6, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) scrapped its Fall hybrid learning plan for an all remote plan. Lightfoot made the call a day after the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU)…
photo by Mike Licht In the age of declaring Antifa, (or the act of being anti-fascist,) a terrorist organisation, political delineation has become a semantic practice used to keep people…
photo by Adam Shalzi When I was 24, I was living the dream. I was running my own DIY venue: booking, curating, promoting, running box office, and clean-up after every…
In the first week of May, Pritzker gave into The Illinois Restaurant Association’s urges to reopen at-restaurant dining. Originally set to open as part of Phase Four on June 28,…
photo by Charles Edward Miller According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Public Schools are expected to announce that they will be going completely remote in the Fall. How students go…
photo by Norma Mortenson The coronavirus pandemic is no where near over. According to the New York Times, cases nationwide are up 18% in the last 15 days. Deaths are…
photo by Ricardo Esquivel May 20, 2020 marked the one year anniversary of the Lori Lightfoot administration. Yet Chicagoans are still waiting for her to deliver the promises she ran…
photo by Jason Hargrove Locating, tracking, and removing someone from inside the system can become necessary skills when you know someone arrested. Often protest aftercare is forgotten about, but is…
Anthony is a student at Northwestern University. He is also a man incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center, a prison roughly 30 miles outside Chicago. I should make it clear that I…
photo by Nenad Stojkovic Working from home is hard. Really, really hard. And in these unprecedented/extraordinary/trying/strange/unusual/ whichever-email-copy-platitude-you-prefer times, many of us find ourselves forced to invite Work into our private…