August 2016

Interview & Photography: Lee Bey on modernism's beauty and guilt

Interview: Sandy Johnston on the South Side’s missing L line

Suggested reading

John Morris on the history of Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago Patterns)

Noname on Telefone (Soundcloud)

Meghan O’Gieblyn on Hell (The Point)

Lee Sandlin on Regular Guys and the American Scheme (Chicago Reader, via Whet Moser)

June 2016

Interview: Jessica Pope on Lindblom High School

Interview: Jon Lauck on the death and life of Midwest identity

Photography: Jes Farnum, Susannah Ribstein, & Eric Allix Rogers on the Central Manufacturing District

Suggested reading

Nikole Hannah-Jones on writing about segregation (Longform Podcast)

Melissa Sanchez on principals leaving “plum” CPS schools (Catalyst Chicago)

Mary Wisniewski on why Toronto gets more transit riders than Chicago on a smaller system (Chicago Tribune)

May 2016

Essay: Anya Degenshein on the economy of a pawnshop

Interview: Mariame Kaba on abolishing prison

Poem: José Olivarez on cheese fries

Suggested reading

Olivia Adams on Dyett High School after the hunger strike (South Side Weekly)

Tal Rosenberg on accidental architecture (Chicago Reader)

Elly Fishman on the future of Jerryon Stevens (Chicago Magazine)

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