Atavia Reed
Reporter at Block Club Chicago
On the South Side beat @blockclubchi. Nosey by Nature. Words around town. Always talking film, music and books👩🏾💻
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
CHICAGO — Dozens of faith leaders gathered on State Street Thursday to demand corporations like Target reinstate their equity and inclusion initiatives despite federal crackdowns and funding cuts from President Donald Trump and his administration. Members of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, local faith leaders and the Rev. Jesse Jackson held a peaceful protest outside the Target at 1 S.
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
CHICAGO — As intro songs like “Boots on the Ground” and “Sirius” played over the speakers, four community leaders took the stage Wednesday at City Club of Chicago to share why their project should win the 2025 Chicago Prize. The Pritzker Traubert Foundation launched the Chicago Prize in 2019 to award leaders for innovative and transformative ideas that could cause impactful change in their communities.
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2 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
ENGLEWOOD — Leaders at the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce are converting a dilapidated historical lodge into a “reimagined” community hub. The organization is in the early stages of transforming the South Side Swedish Lodge, a nearly century-old building that once welcomed Swedish settlers to Chicago, into The Emerald, a $10 million community gathering space and clean energy training site. The Emerald will bring the vacant building at 6855 S. Emerald Ave.
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3 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
BEVERLY — Kamaca Champion has always been a Chicago Bears fan, “through and through.” Even on the city’s most frigid Sundays, Champion has donned orange and blue and cheered for the team from Soldier Field’s parking lot. When she taught her husband how to knit, his first completed project was a Bears-themed scarf. So when Champion opened Miss Purl in 2021 to “build and sustain community through personal expression,” she brought the Bears there too, she said.
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3 weeks ago |
blockclubchicago.org | Atavia Reed
AUBURN GRESHAM — Father Michael Pfleger was at St. Sabina Church last Friday evening when he saw about 50 kids hanging out near a corner home on South Throop Street and West 78th Place, across the street from the church. Around 11:30 p.m., he went outside to where the kids were congregating to ask what was going on, Pfleger said. The kids told him they were celebrating an after-prom party.
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