The CTA plays a large part in the lives of many Chicagoans. With over 1.6 million bus and train trips said to be taken on the average weekday, it's clear that the public transportation system is functioning well despite recent competition from ridesharing apps like Lyft and Uber. But just how well is CTA serving its West side customers?
Read MoreOn the corner of Wood Street and Cermak Road, right in the heart of Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood is Caniceria Maribel, a corner store with a strong name and an even stronger place in the community.
Read MoreThe Majestic Gents use Chicago style steppin to educate and increase awareness of Black culture throughout the world by hosting classes, events that give exposure to Chicago’s South Side culture.
The Real Chi reporters, Naomi Haden and Kyele Nails, and Editors, Clariza Adao and Briana Higgins, sit back and talk about their experience attending the Taste of Chicago 2019. Specifically, they talk about how affordable the Taste of Chicago really is.
Read MoreHoopsHigh has a great lineup of basketball action lined up ahead for fans this summer.
It all begins on July 25 with the inaugural dunk contest followed by the All Star Game during the 2019 Mid Summer Fun Fest.
Read MoreThe Taste of Chicago is one of the city’s biggest family-oriented food festivals that gives the public diverse food options to enjoy.
Read MoreThe Taste of Chicago is a large food festival, held annually in Grant Park . The event
brings a variety of food, games, vendors. For many attending, child safety could be an
underlying concern among the minds of parents.
Read MoreMany cite the Taste of Chicago as the biggest food festival in the world, with many kinds of delicious food all in one place.. For Zhen Heinemann, director of Visitors Experiences at the Taste of Chicago, it’s important to have accessibility be a main focus for the festival.
Read MoreThe Taste of Chicago is one of the city’s biggest family-oriented food festivals that gives the public diverse food options to enjoy. This year, the Taste of Chicago had a total of eighty-two vendors, including five-day vendors and pop-ups. Twenty-seven gave vegan options, and eleven out of the twenty-seven were just desserts, sending a message to those looking for vegan options that the Taste of Chicago may not be the festival for them.
Read MoreHolmes is one of the 125 or so Black Chicagoans who suffered under the hand of former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge.
Read MoreIn a red, brick building in Pilsen, about 75 attendees squeezed into ISA Studios, a multidisciplinary arts and community space where roughly twenty storytellers took the stage to deliver their stories in the form of spoken word, music, and performances.
Read MoreKuumba Tre-Ahm Community Garden will be hosting a Food Sovereignty Action Day at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 18.
Read MoreAfter 25 years, a West Humboldt Park support home for formerly incarcerated women is close to being shuttered. When Leslie Brown-Simmons became the first woman in Illinois to be granted clemency, she experienced first-hand the difficult transition out of incarceration and opened Leslie’s place in 1994, hoping to ease the process for other women.
Read MoreThe Lawndale Christian Health Center will host an open house on May 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to commemorate the opening of the new senior center and event space at their facility located at 3745 W Ogden Ave.
Read MoreJust recently, the previously unoccupied shop was restored and transformed into an event space called 29th Street Gallery, which DiChiara hopes can be an asset to the Bridgeport community.
Read MoreGet your soil tested for heavy metal contamination for free on Tuesday, April 30 at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave., from 6-8 p.m.
Read MoreSaturday April 13th--SAIC Homan Square will be hosting Saturday Cyphers:The Infinite Cypher with musing Hip Hop duo Mother Nature made up of Klevah Knox (Shasta Mathews) and T.R.U.T.H (Tierney Reed). The event will kick-off the spring edition of SAIC’s Homan Square Saturday Cyphers, a program founded by Dr. Ife Williams of SAIC as an initiative to encourage community and kinship through hip-hop.
Read MoreOn April 10, Chicago residents are participating in Local Food Lobby Day by carpooling across the state to Springfield to advocate for policies that support sustainable farming practices, food sovereignty,
Read MoreHolding banners that read “lift the ban” and “rent control now,” protesters chanted, “J.B. keep your word!” and asked Pritzker to honor his campaign promise to support the repeal of the state's rent control ban. They were accompanied by aldermanic candidate Rossanna Rodriguez-Sanchez and Alderman Carlos Rosa-Ramirez, who shared stories of the housing squeeze from the 35th ward.
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