LoganSquarist • December 21 2016

Local Artists To Open Creative Workspace and Gallery On Fullerton

A newly renovated building on Fullerton and Drake will soon be brimming with artwork from Chicago-area creatives.

Founded and operated by resident artists, and husband-and-wife, Melissa Mendiola Polonsky and Jordan Polonsky, Positive Space Studios is a workspace and gallery located at 3520 W. Fullerton Ave. The facility was created to offer affordable, quality studio and gallery spaces to the diverse community of artists throughout the Chicagoland area who are looking for room to create and dis

The DePaulia • February 26 2018

DePaul alum challenges incumbent for Northwest suburban district

Since graduating from DePaul in 2013, Kevin B. Morrison has put his studies in political and environmental science into action, gaining years of experience as a community activist and organizer for Chicagoland area politicians, including Ald. Mary O’Connor, State Rep. Robert Martwick and Hillary Clinton.

Now, he’s pounding the pavement for his own campaign and running as a Democrat for a seat on the Cook County Board of Commissioners against three-term Republican Commissioner Timothy Schneider

LoganSquarist • May 19 2017

Christopher House Hosted 27th Annual Fundraising Benefit Honoring Cubs Charities

As a young boy, Gilbert Juarez watched his older brother and sister attend school at Christopher House, and he saw firsthand how they blossomed. Juarez described how Christopher House helped his family by “encouraging my sister to persevere and play sports that might be considered boy sports, like basketball, and my brother — he loves to eat and loves to try new foods, (…) he loved food so much I guess it was just natural for him to want to learn how to cook, which might have been considered som

The DePaulia • January 17 2017

Movements for, against Trump unsure if momentum will continue

With President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration on Friday, many daring protesters are gearing up to show their disdain for the direction they believe America will head in under a Trump administration. Being at the tail-end of a widely unpredictable election, there’s an underpinning of revolution for many young, politically engaged voters across the ideological spectrum who want to turn outrage into political change. However, questions about how millennials will remain politically engag

LoganSquarist • January 6 2017

Tenants Request Landlord Renegotiate Approaching Eviction Date

Last Saturday, New Year’s Eve, in an event organized by Somos Logan Square and Autonomous Tenants Union (ATU), a crowd of nearly 40 gathered with the intention of signing and delivering a letter to the landlord of an apartment building on California Avenue, requesting he renegotiate a proposed Jan. 15 eviction date.

For nearly a decade, Francisco Macias, owner of the two-story apartment building located at 2328 N. California Ave., has been charging tenants of his building rates of approximately

The DePaulia • January 23 2017

China goes green

China’s poor air quality is an unfortunate reality. From years of burning coal in order to mass produce, China has been left with copious amounts of noxious fog that hangs over much of the country, leading to asthma, acute and chronic respiratory disease and the premature deaths of millions each year.

On Jan. 5, The New York Times reported that China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) announced its plan to invest over $360 billion in renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, i

The DePaulia • May 6 2016

DePaul honors Holocaust Remembrance Day with white roses

Born into a middle class Jewish family in Germany during World War II, Adina Sella’s youth was defined by survival. She felt the depths of restrictions placed on the Jews in Germany, and had to take on a new culture and identity with her family in order to escape.

It meant she needed “to steal, to hide, to mistrust, to lie, to steal food in my pocket,” she said. Its impact is why she prefers the term “child of the Holocaust” over survivor.

Sella told her story May 4, Holocaust Remembrance Day,

Chicago Gallery News • May 13 2021

The Other Art Fair is coming to Chicago

The Other Art Fair (TOAF), presented by Saatchi Art and heading into its 7th year in business, will make its first appearance in Chicago September 28-30, 2018 at Mana Contemporary Chicago in Pilsen. TOAF has become known as the leading art fair for emerging artists in the United Kingdom, and with Chicago being an epicenter for art -- brimming with historic museums, theatres and galleries -- there’s also an ever-growing population of independent, up-and-coming visual artists who would like to gai

LoganSquarist • December 29 2016

Belly Shack Closed For Good On Christmas Eve

This Christmas Eve, Belly Shack wrapped up a seven-year run, leaving many rushing out to get a final taste of the restaurant’s unique Korean and Puerto Rican fusion.

A statement was released on Monday, December 19, by Chef/Founder Bill Kim and his partners at Cornerstone Restaurants, affirming that the once seemingly longstanding establishment located at 1912 N. Western Ave. would be closing its doors for good. While not providing an explanation for the restaurant’s closure, Chef Bill Kim and h

The DePaulia • February 16 2018

“By any means necessary”: DePaul Socialists remember Malcolm X

During the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-50s, while Martin Luther King Jr. offered a message of justice by way of peace, Malcolm X led an alternative movement focused on combating racism by enforcing the values of black empowerment, liberation and achieving social justice “by any means necessary,” which included violence.

While Malcolm X’s rhetoric shifted, and he favored a more peaceful approach to achieving civil rights by the time of his assassination in 1965, the intense an