7 grocers have decided against moving into the now closed Dominick's location at 71st & Jeffrey.
Question is why can't we get someone to put a solid supermarket in the neighborhood?
The question has been asked on Every Block in response to Dnainfo's article about the Dominick's closure.
Jon Lowenstein and his brother, investigative editor, Jeff Kelly Lowenstein are in Santiago working on a documentary project sponsored by the Pulitzer Center, called Enduring Rifts:Chile 40 years After the Coup.
Together the pair document what's going on in the capitol of Chile during the week leading up to the election. The Project can be seen live from the New Yorker's instagram feed (@newyorkermag), as well as Jon Lowenstein's personal instagram feed (@jonlowenstein).
Here are a few samples from the Instagram feed.
I'm currently in Santiago, Chile Documenting the 2013 Chilean Election.
I'm very excited to announce that I've been accepted as one of twelve people into the 2014 TED Senior Fellows program. I can't wait for 2014 to come around so I can update my blog with everything going on in the TED Senior Fellows community.
If you've never been exposed to TED please take a moment and check out what it's all about:
http://www.ted.com/pages/fellows_senior_2014
There's still so much to do in preparation for my flight Wednesday. I feel relaxed. Though the phone's ringing off the hook and my luggage is still in the early stages of completion. I have one conference call after another and my staff smile and stare as I move quickly between the kitchen and living room, carrying a sandwich in one hand and a phone in the other, I call it multitasking.
Finishing my conference calls I move throughout the house assembling the necessary technical accoutrement for my trip: Headphones, audio equipment, film, cameras, the list goes on.
The life of a photographer is filled with abundant pieces of equipment, large bags and only two overhead options.
I look forward to taking off towards a Latin country I've never been to, a sliver of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes-The Republic of Chile.
Jon Lowenstein and the NOOR DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION US launches the Island - an experimental conceptual art and documentary photography space in the heart of Chicago's South Side. Stay tuned for more updates regarding events and happenings at the 'space.'
As Barack Obama makes his case on gun controls, his home city is mired in an epidemic of violence. Last year more Americans were shot dead in Chicago than in Afghanistan.
On a warm October afternoon, I visited the site of a murder down the street from where I live.
Scott "Red" Ingram was 28, had lived in the community and was shot dead in the middle of 83rd St, not far from the now-defunct US Steel site that used to house the largest steel mill in the world. I arrived and found his godmother literally hugging a no parking sign post about 10 feet from where he was killed.
"Red" wasn't the most upstanding citizen. He didn't march in President Obama's inaugural parade, but he was one of the 506 mostly nameless faces that were killed in 2012, a 16 per cent increase over 2011.
Throughout the afternoon friends and family arrived to honour his memory. They built a makeshift memorial, adding a bible, flowers and liquor bottles. I photographed slowly and deliberately, not wanting to impose, yet I recognised the need. We would be the only ones to mark his memory and prove that he had lived.
I’ve worked and lived here on Chicago's south side for more than a decade. During this time I've taught photography, helped make a community newspaper and above all attempted to translate - through photography and film - some of what everyday life is like in this amazing yet embattled part of the country that I call home. Some of this time has been spent documenting the impact of social violence on my fellow community members.
I've had some of the most wonderful and some of the saddest days of my life here. I have done my best to portray the place accurately with a sincere effort at incorporating the impact of social violence while also documenting the other powerful events going on.
Currently, almost one-in-four children grows up in poverty in the US and there has been no moral outcry about this.
We all deserve the right to a safe community where decent work, housing, education and health care are readily available. This is not the case here on Chicago's south side. This lack of hope and the reality that inexpensive guns are readily available is a deadly combination. Too often people decide to try to solve their problems violently.
Although I believe that violence is a huge issue that needs to be tackled, I also think that we need to address holistically the other issues of poverty, sub-par schools, lack of employment and hopelessness. These issues accompany and at times cause the violence in our community, and dealing with them is required so that we can create a far healthier place to live for everyone from the youngest baby to the oldest senior citizen.
Making the film and following these issues for more than a decade have shown me that while there are people with good intentions, the United States would rather spend the taxpayers' money on fighting foreign wars than invest heavily in its most impoverished communities. Currently, almost one-in-four children grows up in poverty in the US and there has been no moral outcry about this. 75 per cent of African-American boys drop out of Chicago public schools. I've seen no presidential edict calling for a full-on effort to address the multitude of issues facing America's poor.
We are failing, plain and simple!
Violence and its aftermath are the most visible ways that people act out. The repercussions are horrible. Families are torn apart and the perpetrators either walk the streets free or, if convicted, go to jail for their entire lives. Ultimately, the result is more human lives wasted.
We need to address the complex and vexing issues of violence and its surrounding problems so we can end economic inequality within our world. Now is the time to fight for a better and stronger community.
I will continue to fight to show what's going on in our country and to fight for better opportunities for everyone. We all deserve safe and respectful communities to live in and the opportunity to hope for a better world.
http://www.channel4.com/news/chicago-gun-crime-shot-dead-17-hours-obama-laws
