[ VIDEO ] Not exactly a pressing topic right now, though one discussed with regards to our city's history. Of course we can talk about...

 At the start of this roundup looking at support among likely voters in the mayoral race we see where both Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas a...

 She was a social worker who's home was hit wrongfully by a police search warrant. Capitol Fax shared a press release from an organizat...

It's amazing that as John R. Schmidt notes on his blog last month that Chicago's Black population was growing during the first half...

[ VIDEO ] Last year at The Sixth Ward I posted this above video from a YouTube channel that refers to itself as Fuzzy Memories - which mos...

I shared a Sun-Times editorial about the decline in the Black population of Chicago Monday morning over at The Sixth Ward . Decline of Black...

In this campaign with the wealthy JB Pritzker as a front runner seeking to be the Democrat nominee for Governor against the also wealth incu...

Before writing about the story below, what I hope to post about later may be semi-related to this. The new distribution center for Whole Foo...

Crossposted from The Sixth Ward [ VIDEO ] One of the main reasons why I started The Sixth Ward was to in some way highlight the middle-clas...

Sun-Times columnist Mitchell takes on the issue of Blacks leaving Chicago After a lifetime of living in Chicago, my husband is seriously tal...

Chicago Mag illustration Richard Mia  Another piece courtesy of Chicago Magazine on the decline of Black Chicago : Since the early ’80s, bla...

Another article I saw referred to Chicago as "Balkanized" i.e. divided. There's   a price to   this division: The seven-county...

Seaway Bank which has a branch located near 111th/Michigan failed on January 27, 2017 . The assets of the bank were purchased by the India...

So according to Crain's Greg Hinz Chicago is finally emerging from the subprime mortgage recession of the last decade, however, it seems...

Last week WBEZ's Natalie Moore was on WTTW's Chicago Tonight to talk about her book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and Americ...

Photos and comments from 15 Black male teachers are worth sharing . Where are the men in our classrooms?

The report apparently not only discussed race, but also income according to those students who had free lunches. Published Wednesday, the r...

I couldn't agree more ! As I saw in another 60 Minutes story years ago, "where are the men?". Some statistics: Despite some ...