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The Culture Dec 05 2019

Lightfoot’s Actions on Environmental Campaign Promises Are Off to a Slow Start

Chicago mayor says budget constraints have cooled her ambitious plans. Her 2020 budget includes no new funding for additional pollution inspectors.

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The Culture Dec 05 2019

At 6-month mark, Lightfoot’s effort to scale back aldermanic prerogative a work in progress

On the day she was inaugurated as Chicago’s 56th mayor, Lori Lightfoot was focused like a laser beam on putting aldermen on notice that she would not flinch from her campaign promise to strip them of the final say on ward-level issues.

The Culture Nov 26 2019

Angela Davis, activists reignited the intergenerational fight for Black lives at NAARPR conference

A multi-generational collective of social justice activists and political freedom fighters, including famed political freedom fighter Angela Davis, convened in Chicago this weekend with one goal in mind: bridging the gap between generations of Black activists while gaining community control of police.

The People Nov 19 2019

Opinion | Chicago Police Department gang databases hurts Black and Brown lives

From Nov. 8-23, the #EraseTheDatabase campaign is hosting workshops across Chicago to help people submit a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out if they are on the CPD gang databases.

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"Undocumented Lesbian"

In this work of creative nonfiction, South side native Sydni Chiles writes about the difficulties of having her identity pigeonholed by societal definitions, and the beauty of finally breaking away from those definitions.