Toggle main menu visibility| November 30, 2016 4:15 pmA viewer has memories of a on an island that has since disappeared. Was this space-age park just a figment of a child’s imagination? Geoffrey Baer has the answer to this, and viewer questions about haunting a South Side neighborhood and the storied flow of .There is a stunning lifelike full body portrait of Harriet Tubman outside on the corner of 111th and Cottage Grove, right across the street from the original Pullman Train car factory. The image is a familiar one. Who put Harriet Tubman there and why?–Debra Ireland, RosemoorA...…Toggle main menu visibility| November 30, 2016 4:15 pmA viewer has memories of a on an island that has since disappeared. Was this space-age park just a figment of a child’s imagination? Geoffrey Baer has the answer to this, and viewer questions about haunting a South Side neighborhood and the storied flow of .There is a stunning lifelike full body portrait of Harriet Tubman outside on the corner of 111th and Cottage Grove, right across the street from the original Pullman Train car factory. The image is a familiar one. Who put Harriet Tubman there and why?–Debra Ireland, RosemoorA...WW…

Toggle main menu visibilityIf you’ve ever marveled at archive footage of old Chicago in a WTTW documentary, chances are good it came from Walt Keevil’s north suburban basement.The retired CTA chief rail equipment engineer has spent long hours in his basement with a singular focus: preserving and digitizing the films his uncle Charles Keevil made of Chicago during its boom years in first half of the 20th century.Walt Keevil says his uncle began making movies around 1915. “He wasn’t a cinematographer, he was a photographer who took movies. He had a good eye for it but he was not a...…Toggle main menu visibilityIf you’ve ever marveled at archive footage of old Chicago in a WTTW documentary, chances are good it came from Walt Keevil’s north suburban basement.The retired CTA chief rail equipment engineer has spent long hours in his basement with a singular focus: preserving and digitizing the films his uncle Charles Keevil made of Chicago during its boom years in first half of the 20th century.Walt Keevil says his uncle began making movies around 1915. “He wasn’t a cinematographer, he was a photographer who took movies. He had a good eye for it but he was not a...WW…

Toggle main menu visibility| April 1, 2020 4:53 pmAccording to reports from the Illinois Department of Employment Security, unemployment claims in the past month totaled over 133,000 as people across the state lost their jobs in the continuing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of those suddenly jobless now find themselves struggling to pay their rent, leading tenant organizations to call upon state and local governments to enact a rent freeze beginning in April. But the idea leaves many rental property owners wondering how they would pay their own bills in the event of such a...…Toggle main menu visibility| April 1, 2020 4:53 pmAccording to reports from the Illinois Department of Employment Security, unemployment claims in the past month totaled over 133,000 as people across the state lost their jobs in the continuing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of those suddenly jobless now find themselves struggling to pay their rent, leading tenant organizations to call upon state and local governments to enact a rent freeze beginning in April. But the idea leaves many rental property owners wondering how they would pay their own bills in the event of such a...WW…

Toggle main menu visibility| January 21, 2021 8:41 pmJordan Bond and Omari Rasheed are not related. But they are brothers.Bond is the “big” to Rasheed’s “little.” They were matched by Big Brothers Big Sisters Chicago eight years ago, when Rasheed was in fifth grade.“From the jump, he was really a great mannered guy – confident, great personality, smart, willing to work hard. He was awesome from the beginning.”Rasheed’s mother Kamaria Ngozi says Bond’s presence has helped open up her son’s world.“I just wanted to make sure that my son had all the tools that he needed to achieve his maximum...…Toggle main menu visibility| January 21, 2021 8:41 pmJordan Bond and Omari Rasheed are not related. But they are brothers.Bond is the “big” to Rasheed’s “little.” They were matched by Big Brothers Big Sisters Chicago eight years ago, when Rasheed was in fifth grade.“From the jump, he was really a great mannered guy – confident, great personality, smart, willing to work hard. He was awesome from the beginning.”Rasheed’s mother Kamaria Ngozi says Bond’s presence has helped open up her son’s world.“I just wanted to make sure that my son had all the tools that he needed to achieve his maximum...WW…

Toggle main menu visibility| January 17, 2021 5:30 pmIn January 1966, Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta, and their four children moved into a West Side tenement and set to work addressing a major facet in his lifelong battle against poverty: quality affordable housing. His mission was to bring an end to the discriminatory housing practices that forced many Black Chicagoans to live in terrible conditions.Upon his arrival in Lawndale, King and three civil rights organizations seized a three-flat on south Homan Avenue, where tenants were living with no heat, electricity, or hot water....…Toggle main menu visibility| January 17, 2021 5:30 pmIn January 1966, Martin Luther King Jr., his wife Coretta, and their four children moved into a West Side tenement and set to work addressing a major facet in his lifelong battle against poverty: quality affordable housing. His mission was to bring an end to the discriminatory housing practices that forced many Black Chicagoans to live in terrible conditions.Upon his arrival in Lawndale, King and three civil rights organizations seized a three-flat on south Homan Avenue, where tenants were living with no heat, electricity, or hot water....WW…

Toggle main menu visibility| November 21, 2020 5:30 pmIn a year filled with twists and turns from COVID-19, the presidential election and the racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd, news outlets are more important than ever in helping the public understand what is often a maelstrom of information.Sometimes those news sources are criticized for leaning left or right — viewed as ideological propaganda machines. So what differentiates the work of advocacy journalists, whose reporting begins with non-objective viewpoints, from biased reporting and misinformation?Justin Agrelo,...…Toggle main menu visibility| November 21, 2020 5:30 pmIn a year filled with twists and turns from COVID-19, the presidential election and the racial reckoning following the death of George Floyd, news outlets are more important than ever in helping the public understand what is often a maelstrom of information.Sometimes those news sources are criticized for leaning left or right — viewed as ideological propaganda machines. So what differentiates the work of advocacy journalists, whose reporting begins with non-objective viewpoints, from biased reporting and misinformation?Justin Agrelo,...WW…