South Side Weekly

10/17/2025

The color, flavor, and variety of Mexican sweet bread are present at Acapulco Bakery #2 in Clearing. That's why Gisela Orozco has name it the Best Place to Satisfy Your Craving for Pan Dulce in Best of the South Side 2025 🍞

ithin Mexican gastronomy and culture, pan dulce has its own chapter, one that even forms part of old sayings in Mexican Spanish, such as “¿A qué hora sales por el pan?”, which is a flirtatious way to ask someone when can they can hang out, or more practical ones like “las p***s con pan son [...

10/17/2025

Two decades after finding renown as a literary novelist, Sandra Jackson-Opoku has begun a new chapter as a cozy mystery author.

✍️ Tina Jenkins Bell

Two decades after finding renown as a literary novelist, Sandra Jackson-Opoku has begun a new chapter as a cozy mystery author.

10/16/2025

Democracy is at stake and it's up to us to protect one another.

Our latest editors note explores the importance of being active journalists, readers, and community members amidst Trumps war on Chicago.

As Trump sends troops to Chicago, we will continue to investigate and report. Readers have a role to play, too.

10/16/2025

Natalie Moore shares why Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature is the best place to see your tax dollars at work in Best of the South Side 2025 📖

hicago maps illustrate racial inequities among neighborhoods. Life expectancies for residents in Black neighborhoods are lower. The presence of preventable diseases in white neighborhoods is lower. But all seventy-seven communities in the city have a public library branch, which are welcoming third....

10/15/2025

Grant-funded arts organizations are collaborating to serve their communities despite sweeping cuts to federal arts funding.

story by Davon Clark

Grant-funded groups are collaborating to serve their communities despite sweeping cuts to federal arts funding.

10/07/2025

In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

Reporting by Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for .institute

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

09/30/2025

“In the United States, we have a Constitutional right to peacefully assemble. That right isn’t waived when ICE agents want to terrorize our neighbors. That right isn’t waived when a sitting president wants to appoint himself dictator.”

✍️ Alma Campos

Hundreds protested outside Broadview ICE in Illinois, resisting Operation Midway Blitz and denouncing raids, deportations, and state violence.

09/30/2025

Best of the South Side 2025 us here, but first we must remind ourselves: we do not celebrate our strength as merit for undeserved suffering, but instead we celebrate the choice to continue to empower ourselves as a means to overcome.

s a publication that covers the South Side, we have to be real. We cannot celebrate without acknowledging the struggles so many people are facing at this moment, both here and overseas. The current administration has named Chicago many times as a target for its mass deportation agenda, and we’ve s...

09/20/2025

The Lost Neighborhood of Maxwell Street Market: Project Onward’s exhibition “Poor Man’s Paradise” is an homage to the historic open air market.

Story by Delaney Eubanks

Project Onward’s exhibition “Poor Man’s Paradise” is an homage to the historic open air market.

09/19/2025

In spite of the Trump administration’s threats to the city’s Mexican heritage celebrations, Little Village’s Mexican Independence Day Parade on 26th Street went on as scheduled. Attendance was lower than usual, but still strong—with many attendees making political statements against ICE and xenophobia.

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A pesar de las amenazas de la administración de Trump a las celebraciones mexicanas de la ciudad, el Desfile del Día de Independencia de México en La Villita sobre la Calle 26 se llevó a cabo como estaba programado. La asistencia fue menor, pero fuerte, con muchos asistentes tomando posturas políticas contra ICE y la xenofobia.

Photos/fotos: Mateo Zapata

09/19/2025

ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz spread through suburbs and South Side neighborhoods, escalating into detentions, family separation, and the fatal traffic-stop shooting of, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.

Federal agents killed a man during a traffic stop amid widespread sweeps that unfolded during the Mexican Independence Day weekend.

09/04/2025

South Side organizations are hosting Migra Watch trainings and preparing for a possible military incursion this weekend.

Local organizations are hosting Migra Watch trainings and preparing for a threatened military incursion.