CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Media Burn Independent Video Archive recently received a grant of nearly $500,000 from the Council on Library Resources to kickstart a new national initiative. "It's a partnership ...

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There’s power in documenting. It can be incredibly validating to see your experiences compiled and preserved for posterity or to be seen in a world where your existence is overlooked or denied. That’s ...

Social Fabric is a glimpse into the vibrant lives, objects, and spaces that shape our city, cocurated with community archives and local photographers. sfriedman-parks@chicagoreader.com Nuestro Chicago ...

The Chicago Police Department seems to be continuously embroiled these days in multiple, high-profile investigations of fatal incidents, corruption scandals, and mishandling of critical equipment. Now ...

Discovering the history of Black life in Chicago is vital to community members across the city and researchers around the globe, from families exploring their genealogy, to high schoolers ...

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Adam Morgan, who probably loves Chicago literature more than you do, grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in Greenville, South Carolina. An hour north of him, Thomas Wolfe was once ...

American writer Gwendolyn Brooks, of Chicago, Ill., poses with her first book of poems titled “A Street in Bronzeville,” 1945, in this undated photo at an unknown location. Brooks was awarded the 1950 ...

Second-year College student Megan Naylor spent the past summer as an intern in the Women and Leadership Archives at Loyola University, organizing a new collection of materials from Carol Moseley Braun ...