Kate S. Buckingham Special Education Center serves thirty-nine students with severe emotional disorders. If the school closes, its students will face a fourteen mile move to their new school, a trek many argue isn’t safe for them to make.
Politics & Labor
Small Talk and Sandwiches
by Osita Nwanevu •
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.
Red Line Rehab
by Lauren Gurley •
On May 19, the southern portion of the Red Line will be shut down for a $425 million rehabilitation project. Over twenty thousand South Siders will have to find an alternative route to work.
In the Shadow of Mount Olympus
by Taro Matsuno •
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.
Open House
by Lauren Gurley •
“Housing is a human right,” said activist Sabrina Morey last Thursday evening.
Eyeing the field
by Sharon Lurye •
For the first few minutes of last Saturday’s political debate, candidates for Jesse Jackson Jr.’s empty Second Congressional District seat outnumbered audience members.
After the Fall
by Lena Robledo •
The white, empty rooms and dark floors of Pilsen’s Plaines Project Gallery have been transformed into “Stretches Topless,” an artistic mediation on the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Iraq in 2003.
Out of Control
by Mosum Shah •
Moderating a panel discussion on the politics of guns in America, Tom Brokaw’s questions forced a dialogue that refused to let the consequences of the Sandy Hook tragedy fade from public consciousness.
