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Isaac Jones still remembers the walk-in closet of his Austin home doubling as a darkroom.
It was back when he and fellow West Sider Brad Cummings were just launching what would become their life’s work: their very own hyperlocalized, Austin-centered community newspaper.
Jones’ closet is where they’d develop photos for the two-man venture. Then they’d sprawl out on the living room floor of Cummings’ apartment a few minutes down the road and — using scissors and glue — cut and paste their neighborhood paper together by hand.
That same scrappy, community-driven pursuit has persisted for 40 years.
It may not for much longer.
The publication, today known as the Voice Newspapers, faces an uncertain future after Cummings — who was its acting editor — died in an apartment fire in Austin, which also killed three others, nearly two months ago. In his absence, Jones, likewise still at the top of the Voice masthead as publisher and photography director, has been confronted with how to carry the publication forward. It has not only lost its linchpin, but is also tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Tess Kenny.
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including: why aldermen are opting out of new Northwest Side tenant powers, what to know about a “real” professional wrestling league launched by a local coach and tracking the Bears’ 53-man roster.
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Johnson, Pritzker and others ponder next steps to counter Pentagon plans deploying National Guard in Chicago
Illinois and Chicago elected leaders worked yesterday preparing plans to counter President Donald Trump’s potential deployment of National Guard members in the city, the latest White House move to combat what it calls the “lawlessness” of Democratic policies, but one that Democrats described as an attempt to spread public fear by using an uninvited occupying military force on domestic soil.
Justice Department demands Illinois hand over voter data. Election officials are debating compliance.
Illinois election officials are weighing whether to comply with a demand from Republican President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to turn over by Sept. 1 the state’s full voter registration list, including voters’ birth dates, driver’s license numbers, signatures and partial Social Security numbers.
Aldermen opting out of new tenant powers, but proponents defend anti-gentrification effort
When David Amato walks into eviction court Thursday, he’ll have a lot on his mind. Anger at the new landlord who he says plans to double rent after booting him and refused to negotiate after purchasing the Logan Square building where he lives. Pride in the six-month rent strike he and his tenants union are waging in response.
And bitterness that a tool he believes would have given him and his neighbors the power to outmuscle a rich corporation to instead buy the 16-unit building themselves — and stay in their homes — materialized just months too late.
Grain Belt Express pits Chicago businessman, politicians and farmers in power line battle
For seven years, Michael Polsky has been trying to build a high-voltage power line from the windswept prairies of Kansas to the ravenous electrical grids of the Midwest and East Coast. He brings plenty of firepower to the task.
His Chicago-based company Invenergy is the country’s largest privately held generator of renewable power. And his investors include Blackstone, the world’s biggest private equity firm. But it’s been a seesaw battle, and the outcome is still in doubt.
Izzy Martínez built a wrestling empire in Chicago. Can he take the sport mainstream?
The tenets of Izzy Style Wrestling are displayed with prominence inside the suburban Chicago gym where Israel “Izzy” Martínez has molded legions of kids into believers, and the best of them into champions. The principles hang on a banner amid the lingering smell of stale sweat and constant work, near the mats that have launched journeys to national championships and the Olympics.
Chicago Bears’ 53-man roster tracker: 7 moves made as GM Ryan Poles begins reduction
The Bears must submit their initial 53-man roster to the NFL office before the league’s 3 p.m. deadline tomorrow. Here are all of the latest roster developments.
Will QB Luke Altmyer rise to the occasion — and who will step up at WR? 5 questions for No. 12 Illinois.
In the middle of a recent media briefing, while running through injury updates and practice plans, Illinois football coach Bret Bielema paused to offer thanks to students.
In Bielema’s first season in Champaign in 2021, the Illini sold about 3,800 student season tickets, he said. Less than two weeks before the season opener against Western Illinois at Memorial Stadium, the Illinois athletic department announced it had sold out its 8,250 student season tickets, on top of the public season tickets that also sold out.
The adman cometh: Leo Burnett’s advertising agency, launched in the Great Depression, beat long odds to succeed
When Leo Burnett opened an advertising agency in a small office at 360 N. Michigan Ave. on Aug. 5, 1935, he put a bowl of apples on the receptionist’s desk.
He was thumbing his nose at a reporter who said it was goofy to go into advertising during the Great Depression and that Burnett would soon be peddling apples on the street.
New Art on the Mart collaboration marks 25 years for Arts of Life
The nonprofit Arts of Life will project works of colorful and abstract images on the facade of Merchandise Mart every evening from Sept. 11 through Oct. 5 as part of its 25th anniversary.
In latest mashup of Chicago flavors, Garrett launches new pizza-flavored popcorn in collab with Home Run Inn
Following a flurry of Chicago-flavored collaborations, a new twist on Garrett Popcorn combines the crunchy kernels with pizza in a partnership with Home Run Inn Pizza.
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