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Celebrate Wicker Park/Bucktown is a magazine presented by chicago-pipeline.com and oururbantimes.com. It contains articles, stories, and advertisements from Wicker Park and Bucktown businesses.

Program Book

Guide to World's Fair Chicago 1933

"Since 2007, Black & Pink free world volunteers have pulled together a monthly newspaper primarily composed of material written by our family's incarcerated members. In response to letters we receive, more prisoners receive the newspaper each issue."

Chicago-based art magazine founded in 1973. This issue features an interview with NEA Chairman, and articles about art in Cincinnati and speakeasy performance art.

STEP HIGH STOOP LOW LEAVE YOUR DIGNITY OUTSIDE proclaims the back of the zine. A reflection mostly about AIDS, seemingly a fund raiser

Issue of Chicago Reporter magazine focusing mainly on police and the courts, particularly responses to police abuse and hardships endured by ex-offenders (e.g. employment discrimination, Illinois tough-on-crime measures).

Amid the neoliberal transformation of Chicago--which extends capitalist market domination into every sphere, and substitutes competition and consumption for solidarity and social justice--the editors felt an urgent need to reclaim, rebuild, and redefine public space. The publication documents a period of cultural activism in Chicago stretching from 2000 to 2005, and covers various projects and organizations that responded to neoliberal restructuring. Topics include collective infrastructures, protest experiments, gentrification, public housing, and urban planning. (Adapted from introduction.)

This zine offers a critical look at the Prison Industrial Complex by combining drawings with statistics about the people who are incarcerated in America today.

Founded in 2005, AREA Chicago supports the work of people and organizations building a socially just city. AREA actively gathers, produces, and shares knowledge about local culture and politics. Its newspaper, website, and events create relationships and sustain community through art, research, education, and activism. *