Outside Voices

It’s election day morning, you perform your due diligence on candidates, get up before work to reach the polls, and minutes later, proudly don the “I voted” sticker as a mark of commitment to your civic duty. But wait…what if someone told you that your vote has no realistic influence…

Imagine one day being awoken to a sound like a bomb-blast, and all you can see or feel is a cloud of dust and smoke. For many residents of Chicago’s Little Village in 2020, when a discontinued industrial smokestack was imploded, this was a reality. For decades, the West Side…