Whether you’re craving a hoagy from the renowned Home of the Hoagy, or looking for your next sweet treat from Brown Sugar Bakery, every corner of the South Side has a food, desert, or drink to try.

NEAR WEST SIDE — Gayun Cannon was born into the world of music.


Her father is the popular Chicago blues guitarist Toronzo Cannon, and her Chinese mother introduced her to Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese music and enrolled her in classical piano lessons when she was younger.


Born in Bronzeville and raised in the Bridgeport and Chinatown area, Gayun Cannon began experimenting with the bass and drums around age 10, she said. She picked up the flute in high school at Whitney Young and then be...

For her accessories brand Fiera, 26-year-old Jazmin Delgado draws inspiration from her family—mixing and mashing her designs based on her relatives who first got her into art. The south-side native began as an earth and environmental sciences major at the University of Illinois Chicago before making the switch to art.

Taking inspiration from composers on and off the island to keep in shape, Tanicha Lopez is reinventing her career
By Layla Brown-Clark
Medill Reports
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — It’s a beautiful day in Miramar, a neighborhood in the expansive city of San Juan. The weather is warm and humid, and inside Gustos Coffee, the espresso shots and order calls set the scene for a promising day in the bustling city. The coffee shop is buzzing with vigor as Tanicha Lopez enters the establishment in her own way....

LONDON – Janet Hills, as the head of the Metropolitan Black Police Association, worked to rebuild fractured trust with marginalized communities.
Her work started early in her years as a police officer, fresh out of a previous job as a revenue inspector for Transport for London, the city’s transit system. She was assigned in 1991 to Brixton, a predominantly Black district of London, where people have a strained relationship with the Metropolitan Police Service.
Brixton was unfamiliar to Hills, wh...