‘South Side,’ Comedy Central’s made-in-Chicago sitcom, gets a premiere date: July 24

“South Side,” the Comedy Central series shot in Chicago last summer, will hit the air on July 24, the cable channel announced Thursday.

Bashir Salahuddin, who grew up in the South Shore and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods, created the slice-of-life show with his writing partner Diallo Riddle. Salahuddin plays Officer Goodnight, a policeman, and Riddle co-stars as a public defender. The central characters are two would-be entrepreneurs (Sultan Salahuddin — Bashir’s brother — and Kareme Young) who recently graduated from community college and work at an Englewood rent-to-own store.

Salahuddin’s brother, Sultan, and wife, Chandra Russell, also are in the cast, and the Season One guest stars will include comedians “Lil Rel” Howery and Nathaniel “Earthquake” Stroman, Wilco musician Jeff Tweedy, actors LisaRaye McCoy and Kel Mitchell and Chicago’s 104.3 James morning host Ed Lover.

“We are putting actual Chicago people in the show,” Bashir Salahuddin told the Sun-Times during production in 2018. “I want to show you people who live here. What you see on the screen is what you see on the street. We really do work hard to make sure the prism is correct.”

A new follow-up to the trailer released in February adds scenes of a microwave renter running away with the oven and a discussion of whether deep-dish pizza is “lasagna with crust.”

Salahuddin, who plays Keith Bang on Netflix’s “GLOW,” worked with Riddle as writers on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.”