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Residents mourn loss of town’s only ‘real’ grocery store

Residents mourn loss of town’s only ‘real’ grocery store

All she wanted was a green bell pepper. After scanning the mostly empty and rotted fruits and vegetables that remained in the produce aisle at the only grocery story left in the Richton Park community south of Chicago, Carolyn Henderson realized that she would have to drive 12 minutes for this one item. Richton Park’s Super […]

Don’t Let Your Pride Go Before a Fall

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Don’t Let Your Pride Go Before a Fall

Chicago Pride attendees may want to think twice about throwing parties on rooftop or balconies.

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Soul Food in the City: Bronzeville’s Mama Lou’s

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Soul Food in the City: Bronzeville’s Mama Lou’s

Mama Lou’s Comfort Kitchen, located in Chicago’s “Black Metropolis” known as Bronzeville, is in its fifth year of serving soul food with quality service. Theodore Boone, who works at Mama’s Lou’s, has been there since his daughter and her husband founded the restaurant. The couple did two years of research and made the decision to […]

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Urban Broadcast Media Profile

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Urban  Broadcast Media Profile

Urban Broadcast Media is a multimedia outlet located within the Bronzeville Community. UBM serves to alert and entertain its audience with three stations: UBM Talk, UBM Praise and UBM Jams. Check out the link below. Urban Broadcast Media  

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Chicago City Council Gets Ordinance On Paid Sick Leave

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Workers, nonprofits and aldermen called for a new law that would require employers to provide paid sick leave to all employees. The proposed bill was introduced March 5 to the Chicago City Council.  

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