Mayor Emanuel's ordinance does not protect Chicago working families. It creates a new level of systemic inequity. Stand with working families and vote no on the Chicago Infrastructure Trust. »
The following is from Grassroots Collaborative, a coalition eleven membership-based organizations in Illinois. Mayor Emanuel insists on moving forward with the Chicago Infrastructure Trust ordinance, despite widespread questions around equity, transpar... »
Just a few weeks ago we were talking about the nearly-closed loop that was The Plant, entrepreneur John Edel's Back of the Yards ecosystem-in-a-building. Two key pieces of it were the 312 Aquaponics farm and the New Chicago Beer Company, insofar as the... »
From partly undoing cuts for branch library hours to extending the school day seven – not seven and a half – hours, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has scaled back major policy changes in response to public criticism. Thus far, this is not the case with the... »
Three beehives are ready to go. On April 3, 2012, I joined Jana Kinsman (Bike-A-Bee; read our story from January) and Brandon Gobel (Chicago Cargo) to deliver three beehives on the west and south sides of Chicago. Scroll through this photo essay to jo... »
Samuel and Jesse Edwin Evans, the brothers behind the nascent New Chicago Beer Company, are moving out of the Back of the Yards eco-compound known as the Plant, where they’d been planning since early last year to start their brewery. The Evans brothers... »
News links: Huffington Post In protest of the closings of six Chicago mental health care clinics, advocates and community residents occupied the Woodlawn clinic on the city's South Side. Though 23 were arrested yesterday, protesters say they »
Mayor Emanuel's ordinance does not protect Chicago working families. It creates a new level of systemic inequity. Stand with working families and vote no on the Chicago Infrastructure Trust. »
