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  • The Multi-Million-Dollar Corporation
    This is story 2 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?”
    This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds of internal emails and public documents about the rich legacy of the “castle,” as members fondly referred to the building, the conflicts that led to its sale, and the changing face of the boulevard.
    Story by Emeline Posner
    Read by Chima Ikoro
    Produced by Erisa Apantaku
    Music:
    Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182517
    Delicates by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182516
    Checkered Blue by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182544
    The Maison by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182513
    Taoudella by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182515
    1 hr 3 min
  • The Castle on Drexel
    This is story 1 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?”
    This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds of internal emails and public documents about the rich legacy of the “castle,” as members fondly referred to the building, the conflicts that led to its sale, and the changing face of the boulevard.
    Story by Emeline Posner
    Read by Chima Ikoro
    Produced by Erisa Apantaku
    Music:
    Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182517
    Delicates by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182516
    Checkered Blue by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182544
    The Maison by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182513
    Taoudella by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182515
    27 min
  • What's to Come for the 4800 Block of South Drexel Boulevard?
    This is story 3 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?”
    This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds of internal emails and public documents about the rich legacy of the “castle,” as members fondly referred to the building, the conflicts that led to its sale, and the changing face of the boulevard.
    Story by Emeline Posner
    Read by Chima Ikoro
    Produced by Erisa Apantaku
    Music:
    Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions
    Delicates by Blue Dot Sessions
    Checkered Blue by Blue Dot Sessions
    The Maison by Blue Dot Sessions
    Taoudella by Blue Dot Sessions
    23 min
  • Blindspot
    The Exchange: The Weekly's poetry corner offers our thoughts in exchange for yours
    Blindspot
    By Vernique Dyson
    Read by Vernique Dyson
    Submissions can be sent to bit.ly/ssw-exchange or via email to [email protected].
    2 min
  • Author of The Mexican Revolution in Chicago
    From the roaring twenties to the cold sixties, Mexicans in the Chicago area embodied a diverse, pluralist society where political, cultural, and religious continuums converged, seeding the region’s contemporary Mexican-American civilization. An interview of book author Dr. John H. Flores by Matthew Carnero Macías for South Side Weekly.
    37 min
  • Envisioning New Futures with Chris Rudd: A Tale of Two Futures - The Probable and the Preferred
    Designer Chris Rudd on the dichotomy between the probable future and the preferred future, and how to start thinking more about your preferred future. Hint: give it time.
    Read the accompanying print story at https://southsideweekly.com/into-the-futures/.
    Read about the results of the Institute of Design’s 2019 design studio pop-up in Boxville here: https://id.iit.edu/projects/51-futures-bronzeville/
    This episode was produced by Erisa Apantaku. Music in this episode was "Stop the Clocks" by Anamorphic Orchestra (CC BY-NC 3.0) and "Ambience, Peaceful Synth.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org. Illustrations by Gaby Febland.
    For more news, visit www.southsideweekly.com.
    8 min
  • Envisioning New Futures with Benji Hart: What Brings You Joy?
    Benji Hart on how to envision new futures and how examples of liberation exist in the present and in previous generations.
    Read the accompanying print story at https://southsideweekly.com/into-the-futures/.
    This episode was produced by Erisa Apantaku. Music in this episode was "Stop the Clocks" by Anamorphic Orchestra (CC BY-NC 3.0) and "Ambience, Peaceful Synth.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org. Illustration by Alfredo Medrano.
    For more news, visit www.southsideweekly.com.
    11 min

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