Elementary school closures. Privatization disasters.There are plenty of reasons we were relieved to see Rahm Emanuel leave office. But with news that he's being considered for a place in the Biden White House, we have a message for the incoming administration: Put a "do not hire" on Rahm.Sign and...

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...

Zoning and Land Use are key tools in maintaining, or changing, the character of Chicago's neighborhoods.Unfortunately, these processes are intentionally difficult for the average person to understand. This gives developers and other wealthy insiders an advantage over working-class communities, wh...

Earlier this month, CTU members endured a week-long lockout in the fight for school safety. This was a difficult fight, and we wanted to show some love and solidarity.33rd Working Families joined with our neighboring 35th and 39th Ward IPOs to pick up lunch for locked-out local school staff. Our ...

Nearly a year ago, WF33 members nominated one of our own, Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, to be our candidate for the 33rd Ward aldermanic seat.Eleven months, two rounds of voting, and tens of thousands of knocked doors later, it’s official: The Board of Elections this afternoon certified Rossana for ...

We stand in support of the Kimball Tenants Union and call on Stark Chicago, the owner of their building, to find a solution to keep these tenants in their homes.Since June, tenants at 4841-4853 N Kimball have been waging a fight to keep their place in the neighborhood. Stark bought the building e...

33rd Ward Working Families members joined our allies in the education justice movement to march from Ravenswood Manor Park to the home of state senate president John Cullerton to demand that he move the bill for an elected, representative school board in Chicago.The rally took place amid the late...

In the March primaries, 71 percent of 33rd Ward voters said they wanted Illinois to lift the ban on rent control to address gentrification and displacement.This win brought new momentum to the push to keep our neighborhoods affordable and challenge the interests of big developers.In the March pri...