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This week’s StreetWise explores how protest movements can often achieve greater impact by prioritizing targeted corporate boycotts over larger demonstrations, highlighting how simple, low-risk actions like “buy this, not that” can broaden particip...

Get your Kicks on Route 66! Its the Centennial of Illinois Route 66! Explore this iconic route that originates in Chicago and learn about the efforts to preserve some historic sites. 

In this issue we trace the birth of the protest anthems through the modern era.

Read about legendary jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock is bringing International Jazz Day back to Chicago, the place where the art form began for him – and which shaped it for the world. And check out our listing of events.

Thousands of Americans have full-time jobs and still can’t pay rent. They live in shelters, with their families, and in extended stay hotels. Most are not included in the official count of people experiencing homelessness because they do not fit t...