Punching Back at the Crime in Chicago’s Southside
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports Children on the south side of Chicago are subjected to an alarming rate of violence from a very young age. Without after school activities to keep these kids from joining gangs, many find themselves in a gang before high school. Sally Hazelgrove took it upon herself to create Crushers Club […]
Open art studio offers sexual assault survivors healing in Ravenswood
By Carolyn Talya Cakir There is a still that settles around the room as people begin to create. Surrounded by art created by sexual assault survivors, eight people sit at two fold-out tables in the center of The Awakenings Foundation art gallery in Ravenswood. They are participating in Making Matters, an open art studio session […]
