Southside Chicago is a research archive that provides students with direct experience in social science research. This project is part of the Urban Research Workshop (URW), which is analyzing Chicago‘s Southside black communities, with particular focus on changes in these communities since the early 1990s.
This archive currently contains digitized issues of the South Street Journal, a local community newspaper that has been a powerful voice of the Southside Community; several years‘ worth of back issues, dating from 1993 to 2006, have been donated to Columbia University for this project.
As it expands, the Southside Chicago archive will allow successive URW classes to read and collaboratively analyze articles from several such community newspapers, using them as a basis to conduct primary research on themes such as gentrification, racism, political affairs, and youth development.
You can begin by browsing through the South Street Journal collection from 1993 to 2000.