UPDATE 10/5/20:Thank you to all who have helped and donated! Please see our updated grocery donation and pickup hours.All this week, we're hosting a grocery drop-off and pick-up with our friends in Brave Space Alliance at our office at 3248 W Montrose.We have boxed and canned goods, toiletries an...

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...

In October 2019, nine striking CTU members were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Sterling Bay offices, the developers who are on track to receive $1.3 billion in Tax Increment Financing dollars to construct 6,000 homes at the future Lincoln Yards development. Lincoln Yards will create a ...

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...

33rd Ward Working Families is pleased to issue solidarity endorsements to Delia Ramirez for State Representative (District 4) and Brandon Johnson for Cook County Commissioner (District 1), two movement-backed candidates seeking office in Chicago.Delia Ramirez is a social service director, communi...

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...