Your Daily Guide

Shelters for Unaccompanied Children Closing

Heartland Health Care Services is closing four shelters due to federal cuts. These shelters housed immigrant children and provided medical care, education and legal services. [WTTW]

No More Angel in The Sky. Plus, The Hideout’s Under New Management

Fans are reeling after the Chicago Sky traded All-Star forward Angel Reese. On today's podcast, we ask why the Sky is falling. Plus, The Hideout has new ownership and we've got some music to check out. [City Cast Chicago 🎧]

New Trial for Police Killing of Harith Augustus

A lawsuit by Augustus’ mother will receive a new trial after appellate judges found city attorneys improperly kept two Black people out of the jury. A police officer fatally shot Augustus five times in 2018. A jury ruled in favor of the police officers in 2023. [Block Club]

Illinois Provides Most Abortions for Out-of-State Patients

About 1 in 4 abortions for patients seeking care outside of their home state happen in Illinois. The state has been a common destination since 2023, with patients coming from Wisconsin, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky and Iowa. [WBEZ]

If you are like me, all your family history lives within multiple photo albums and VHS tapes stored in your parents’ living room cabinets. I love the rare occurrences where we pull them out and talk about the day that the photo was captured, who was still around, and how the block used to look.

What if you could share that family history with the city? These three archival projects are keeping Chicago family stories alive through photographs and videos past and present.

Making Meaning

Black Film Club Collective’s new archival project, Making Meaning, partnered with photographer Kenn Cook Jr. to take beautiful black and white portraits of West Side families. You can submit archival materials like photos and home movies that reflect life on the West Side to their collection.

Nuestro Chicago Archives

This online archive is dedicated to digitizing and showcasing Chicago’s Latine history. The project, founded in 2024, hosts photo-scanning events where Chicagoans can digitize their memories. They accept submissions of photographs taken before 2008.

• 📷 This collection makes me so nostalgic of my childhood in Chicago because it showcases backyard parties, kids playing in open fire hydrants, posing outside of storefronts that no longer exist, or the everyday gatherings with family and friends.

South Side Home Movie Project

This searchable catalog has over 700 digitized home movies shot by South Siders from 1929-1982. The project started over two decades ago with the mission to preserve and celebrate personal histories on the South Side. If you are or were a South Sider, you can gift a film to the collection.

How are you preserving old family photos and home movies? Let us know!