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Swap ’til You Drop: A look inside a South Side flea market

Shoes for sale at Swap-O-Rama; Leah Reisman Buyers beware: at the Ashland Avenue Swap-O-Rama, you can buy everything and the kitchen sink. Set just north of the once-booming Chicago stockyards, the...

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New Brews - The South Side’s only microbrewery lays down roots in Back of the...

Sophia Anastazievsky “It’s like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory—it keeps going and going and going…there are a lot of crazy things going on here and we’re one of them.” This is how Samuel Edwin Evans,...

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Back of the Yards

Just southwest of the former Union Stockyards, there’s a neighborhood that, for better or for worse, will always be defined by them. The Back of the Yards, one piece of the larger New City area, is...

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Redistricting Fault Lines

Rachel Wiseman & Eric Fischer/flickr [Show as slideshow] On October 25, the assembly hall of the Hyde Park Union Church was nearly empty. Of the two-dozen chairs arranged in rows before a projector...

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Breakdown

Claire Hungerford [Show as slideshow] The communal dining room and kitchen at Northwest Mental Health Center has long been a fixture of programming at the clinic. Rosa Torres, who has worked as a...

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Sticking Up for Lacrosse

Paul looked on appreciatively from the sidelines as his son came off the bench for the first time in the game. Two years younger and a head shorter than the other players around him, Paul Jr. chased...

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Best of the South Side 2012

Jane Fentress Chicago is a city that boasts, and this is our contribution. Our half of the city—the South Side—is many things, and in our annual Best Of issue, we haven’t tried to solve the riddle of...

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Back of the Yards

flickr/mathwizxp When Chicago was hog butcher to the world, America’s hog butchers lived in Back of the Yards. The neighborhood takes its name from the adjacent site of the Union Stockyards, which ran...

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The Four Stomachs of Sustainability

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the Eisenmann Biogas System in the gravel backyard of the Plant on November 9th, speakers ranging from Alderman Pat Dowell to Eisenmann President Mark West tried to...

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