hicago is unique because it’s diverse and segregated. Finding organic diversity isn’t hard but it’s not typically the default ...

The South Side is a state of mind and a place of love. My roots go back to both sets of grandparents who joined thousands of other Black folk during the Great Migration. They helped build a Black ...

Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church. But downstairs, its renovated basement holds Haven Studios, a recording studio that ...

Ya sabes las movidas,” my maternal grandfather Raymundo Velásquez would say. “You know the moves.” Movidas means “moves.” But ...

Daley’s Restaurant has weathered every storm it has faced. Chicago’s oldest continuously operating restaurant has survived ...

Life expectancies for residents in Black neighborhoods are lower. The presence of preventable diseases in white neighborhoods ...

August 4th, 2025, the South Side gained an angel like none other. Harold “Big Ed” Matthews Jr. was a talent unique in every ...

When I was asked to write for South Side Weekly’s Best of the South Side, my mind immediately started racing. I was told to “walk” the reader through four to six places on the South Side that have ...

But with my best friend or cousin, we would walk about a mile from our house, going east, passing corner stores, eloteras, ...

From the extraordinary terra cotta-clad buildings standing sentinel over Cottage Grove to the bungalows marching along its ...

The annual Best of the South Side was my introduction to South Side Weekly. Seeing the paper intentionally platform the South Side against a media ecosystem that amplified Chicago’s downtown, North ...

I was stressed out and needed to find an outlet.  I had some hurdles when it came to finding a yoga studio, but I’d seen ads ...