A Partial Directory of Calumet Region/South Suburbs Resources

Peripheral Vision

A local reader inside and outside Chicago

Inheriting the Grid #9

Rebecca Zorach
Introduction

Dan S. Wang
Section I

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A Partial Directory of Calumet Region/South Suburbs Resources

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A South Chicago Educational Eco-Activist

A retired educator reflects on economic and educational changes in the Region with optimism for a green future.

Joann Podkul
U.S. Steel South Works

Top-down and bottom-up ways to imagine a future for the 573-acre site of the storied South Side steel mill.

Charles Vinz
Shut This Authoritarian Nightmare Down!

A poetic account of lifelong anti-authoritarian activism.

Anthony Rayson
Relative Freedom

The hope and despair of teaching art for social change on the South Side.

Bert Stabler
Mapping Beverly to Blue Island

A collection of drawings of culturally significant places in The Calumet Region, with curriculum cues and an exhibition project.

Jayne Hileman
Steel Shavings

Reflections of 40 volumes of local history.

James Lane | Samuel Barnett
Somebody Had To Do It

Activists talk about fighting toxic boondoggles in the South Suburbs, working against war, the Peotone airport, and incinerators.

Rebecca Zorach
Metering
Resentment

The great Richard M. Daley parking meter giveaway and what some South Side activists are doing about it.

Dinah Ramirez
Bird Blind

A profile and appreciation of the fragile avian ecology of the Calumet Region marshlands.

Mara Naselli
Southeast Environmental Task Force

Goals and successes of a steadfast environmental organization in Hegewisch.

Carrie Breitbach
Section II

Circulation: Movement Between Center and Periphery

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The Making and Remaking of Urban Peripheries

Chicago and the dynamics of socioeconomic exclusions within and without.

Andrew Greenlee | Ryan Hollon
Three World Systems Diagrams

Flows between center and periphery, and without centers and peripheries.

Claire Pentecost
Precious Cargo in the Great Lakes

For decades the Great Lakes, the interior’s waterway to the world, has been a site of commercial and political contestation.

Paul Lloyd Sargent
Ishpeming and Gary

A town and a city, both in their ways on the far peripheries of Chicago, once linked through industry, and again thourhg deindustrialization.

Laurie Palmer
The Quiet Giant

Organizing workers who move massive quantities of materials to and through Chicago.

Quincy Saul
A Geography of Illinois Wheat

Bushels of wheat in motion, from fields to the Board of Trade.

Sarah Kavage
Inside and outside the system

Working with undocumented immigrants in far-flung detention centers.

Gloria Natalia Ortiz | Rebecca Zorach
Three Part Path

Walking 150 miles takes you out of the metro area-go.

Mike Wolf
Chicago’s Public Transportation System and Residential Patterns

New investment in Chicago’s mass transit system reinforces the core-periphery layout.

Sean Noonan | Stephanie Farmer
Outcast Islands

Touring the social margins of Ben Reitman’s Chicago.

P. Genesius Durica
The Legacy of Daniel Burnham

The White City, the Plan of Chicago, and the making of peripheral zones.

Ashley Weger
Native Resurgence

The activism and cultures of American Indians clearly situate Chicago in a regional context, informed by generations of displacement and unending resistance.

Nicholas Brown | Sarah Kanouse
Vicky’s Story

A Filipina and Chicagoan knits her worlds together through service and activism.

Dale Asis
The Symmetry of Center and Periphery

Moving to Chicago from Milano and discovering that you bring a cultural core within yourself.

Lorenza Perelli
Blowed-in-the-Glass

One of America’s original underground subcultures becomes visible in Pullman’s Hobo Fest.

P. Genesius Durica
Pedagogy of the Periphery

Mini Section on Curricula

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To Close the City-Suburb Divide

Bringing into the city art students from Roosevelt University’s Schaumburg campus.

Carol Ng-He
Please Bring Your Cell Phone to Art Class

Innovative media art-activism goes from classroom to streets in a neighborhood border zone plagued by gang and turf tensions.

Nicole Marroquin
Schoolyard Phantoms

The questions that arise when a group of CPS Boone grade schoolers go on a trip to Winnetka’s New Trier High School, where they are received by an activist group.

Wade Tillett
Doing Urban Studies from the Suburbs

Reflections on teaching critical perspectives on the city-suburb relationship from the position of an edge city.

Rebecca Zorach | Steve Macek
Section III

Views from the Edge

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Teardowns in a North Shore Suburb

Real estate trends reach into the landscape of affluence, impoverishing a rich architectural legacy.

Larry Shure
Suburban Homelessness

People in the ‘burbs without homes are invisible and virtually without support. The Alliance to End Homelessness in Suburban Cook County and other orgs are trying to address the growing crisis.

Shannon Beaudry
The Nazis in Skokie

The oft-heard story of a political fringe looking for a foothold in a Chicago suburb in the 1970s.

Joey Pizzolato
Building a White Belt

Racial exclusivity took shape in Glen Ellyn long before the white flight of the 60s.

Brian Schultz
Chicago and Its Suburbs

How it got to be this way: a timeline

Ashley Weger | Chuck Lee
Introducing the Just Farming Small Farmers Confederation

Three small-scale farming projects in southwestern Michigan with Chicago origins and links.

Daniel Tucker
Victories to Celebrate

An artist’s role in the 28-year campaign that defeated the proposed Crandon Mine in northern Wisconsin, aka vacation land for Milwaukee, Chicago, and population centers downstate.

Nicolas Lampert
The Brownlands

A view into a mostly unseen tract just outside the Loop, visited only by urban bohemian adventurers and developers with outsized ambitions.

Alex Yablon
Not for Sale

The resistance politics of El Barrio come out of both a neighborhood and an island in the Carribbean.

Chase Bracamontes
History as a Periphery

Seeing the overlooked and erased elements from the city’s past with the group Forgotten Chicago.

Ashley Weger | Serhii Chrucky
Beyond the Borders

Looking for the written word and odd voice outside of the mainstream book retailers.

Donna Kiser | Erin Moore
The Left vs. Disability

Perhaps disability, being the universal marginal condition at some point experienced by practically all, should be at the center of liberation struggles, not the edges.

Beth G
Beyond Treatment

HIV/AIDS is increasingly a Black people’s epidemic, but remains out of central sight as a crisis.

Dr. Mildred Williamson | Michelle Lugalia
Cold Storage on the Periphery

Voices critical of Illinois’s remote Tamms supermax prison blend high theory and grassroots activism.

Laurie Jo Reynolds
What Does Peripheral Feminism Mean to You?

Excerpts from responses to an open question bring feminism back to the center as discourse, value system, and life experience.

Alexis Finch | Bert Stabler | Donna Kiser | Frank Edwards | Helen Kiernan | Mairead Case | Megan Milks | Melissa Severin | Nell Taylor | Tim Jones-Yelvington
No More Center, No More Margin

Calling poets to political arms. To be read out loud!

Matthias Regan
Eyes in the Back of My Head

A letter to a jailed comrade excavates personal histories at the margin of radical legacies.

Mary Patten
AREA #9 Recommended Readings

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