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Situations – A Logan Square Diy-Venue Goes Off-Line Permanently After 9 Years Of Dedicated Underground Punk Service To The North Side Of Chicago
  • Charles Joseph Smith
  • Community, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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Situations – A Logan Square Diy-Venue Goes Off-Line Permanently After 9 Years Of Dedicated Underground Punk Service To The North Side Of Chicago

all photos by Sarah Marie Coogan

Basement at Situations

I went to Situations many times. You had to walk through a door in the alley opening to the venue’s rear garage that hugs the elevated tracks of the CTA’s Blue …

“Seeing You”: Film Sheds Light on the Struggle Against Chicago’s Migrant Child Detention Centers
  • Noah Jones
  • Community, FIlm, Issue #14
  • July 15, 2021
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“Seeing You”: Film Sheds Light on the Struggle Against Chicago’s Migrant Child Detention Centers

“Remember when you don’t see hope, hope is seeing you”. This line caps the last verse of José Orozco’s “Hope is Seeing You”, a song telling the story of his time spent as a youth mistreated and imprisoned in a …

Stillness in La Villita
  • The Sick Muse
  • Community, Issue #13
  • June 26, 2020
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Stillness in La Villita

Photo of Yoana Sanchez by Marcos Sanzhez

A Collaboration Project between Yollocalli, Enlace, & The Kickback

Today our lives are recorded frequently and instantly, and sometimes we forget to pause to remember what that moment meant. We present a collection …

Pt.fwd: Creating a Downstate Home for the Sonic Avant-Garde
  • Eddie Breitweiser
  • Community, Issue #13
  • June 26, 2020
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Pt.fwd: Creating a Downstate Home for the Sonic Avant-Garde

There is a particular calm – a natural stillness – in Illinois’s small cities. As a teenager in Bloomington-Normal, the repetitious predictability made me restless; like taking a long roadtrip against a backdrop that never changes. As an adult who …

The fight to end migrant child detention.
  • LVSN
  • Community, Issue #12
  • August 3, 2019
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The fight to end migrant child detention.

Little Village Solidarity Network (LVSN) has been fighting to expose and dismantle a system of detention known as “shelters” for Unaccompanied Alien Children. This is a network of over 100 secretive detention facilities operated by nonprofit agencies. Hundreds of thousands …

Ciera Mckissick and The Ten Year Journey of AMFM
  • Dan Shukis
  • Community, Issue #12
  • August 3, 2019
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Ciera Mckissick and The Ten Year Journey of AMFM

Photo by Rena Naltsas. Ciera Mckissick, founder of AMFM.

When thinking about AMFM, DIY fans may envision the bright, popping social media pages that showcase Chicago’s newest underground artists. For others, it might be remembered as the storefront gallery …

Local Legend P Michael’s Doppelganger Spotted Eating Thai Food in Hyde Park
  • pt Bell
  • Community, Issue #12
  • August 3, 2019
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Local Legend P Michael’s Doppelganger Spotted Eating Thai Food in Hyde Park

Sourced photograph by Julia Dratel

30MHz: Thai 55, 1607 E 55th St, Chicago, IL. I’m squished into their sub-basement, into hiding. There’s a mattress, a sewing kit. Faux chicken feathers all stuck around with stinking yellow stains. The mark …

Bloodshed, Cries the Elder God
  • Jack Chavez
  • Community, Issue #12
  • August 3, 2019
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Bloodshed, Cries the Elder God

Photo by Pilsen Resident and Artist Nathan Mansankan

The neighborhood is whispers upon whispers upon whispers. In the most congregated corners I can still hear the mourning of the dead. The tragedy enveloped me since I arrived a few years …

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