THANK YOU to everyone who joined us last Thursday to push for basketball lights at Horner Park! Shout out to HANA Center and the Roosevelt High School students for your leadership and determination!For more info, see this article from Block Club Chicago.

Since our people-powered movement helped elect her to City Council in 2019, Alderwoman Rossana Rodriguez has fought hard for our communities. She's brought new affordable housing to the 33rd Ward, implemented participatory budgeting and zoning processes, and introduced legislation that protects r...

33rd Ward Working Families Condemns Far-Right Smear Campaign Targeting Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-SanchezTuesday, July 11th, 2023We, the steering committee of 33rd Ward Working Families, strongly condemn the efforts by far-right agitators to smear and harass 33rd Ward Ald. Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez a...

Isidro Valverde was leaving a local bar and had an altercation just outside, where he pointed a gun at the security guard. The security guard was able to de-escalate the situation, Isidro left, and police were called. The police then pursued Isidro down an alley, where he was fatally shot. In the...

In the 1970s, protestors in Wrigleyville and Belmont Harbor gathered to demand affordable housing for Chicago’s ignored and underserved Native community. Though the protest ended with a promise at both the federal and local levels for affordable housing, that promise was never fully kept.We will ...

In 2015, only a few months after I learned I was pregnant, our landlord raised our rent.My partner and I had been living in an apartment in Albany Park for two years. It was not in good shape but we put love, time and energy into making it a place we could welcome our son. We paid our rent on tim...

We are calling upon Jaime Andrade, Illinois State Representative of the 40th District, to join more than a dozen of his colleagues and formally call for Mike Madigan to step down as Speaker of the Illinois House and from the leadership of the Democratic Party of Illinois.As a top recipient of cam...

Starting this week, the Brave Space Alliance food pantry hosted at our office has a new schedule.To donate groceries: Wednesdays from 11 am - 6 pm; Thursdays from 4 - 7 pmTo pick up groceries: Fridays from 12 - 2 pm and 4 - 6 pmThis remains an all-volunteer operation, so if you’d like to help out...