Mariah Rush

Wood Street Urban Farm in Englewood hopes to expand to include a cafe, retail store, commercial kitchen and food processing facility to keep produce that had been sent to markets in North Side neighborhoods closer to home.

Everything at the business — Commercial Pallet, 2029 W. Hubbard St., including inventory, machinery, equipment, vehicles — was ‘a total loss,’ in the fire, the owner’s daughter said. Fire crews were rotated in and out to protect them from heat exhaustion.

My Block My Hood My City kicked off its youth-led tour program on Wednesday. Tours run every Saturday throughout the summer in North Lawndale.

The Amateur City Elite, which brings together primarily Black aspiring professional baseball players, put a creative spin on Juneteenth. “I thought [they] did a really good job of thinking out of the box,” Johnson said.

In celebration of the holiday, the Juneteenth Jumpoff, an annual cabaret-burlesque show, takes the stage on two nights — Tuesday and Wednesday — at the Baton Show Lounge and the Den Theatre, and allows Black performers to express themselves for “Jubilee Day.”

Since the first reported case on March 7, over 30,000 vaccines have been administered, primarily to migrants in shelters.

In January, a Yellow Banana executive promised the city his company would improve after multiple delays opening stores in underserved South and West side communities.

The motto of the Wellington-Oakdale Old Glory Marching Society’s Parade is, “Everybody marches, nobody (just) watches.”

Cualquier frustración es bienvenida después de clase en GLOW: Trauma-Informed Mentoring for Girls. “Este club es el único en el que podemos expresarnos”, dice una niña mientras sus compañeras crean un “jardín zen”.