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FIELD NOTES
Is the Mississippi River Ready for Climate Change?
Decades beyond its intended lifespan, the river’s shipping infrastructure faces an uncertain future.
Is the Mississippi River Ready for Climate Change?
Decades beyond its intended lifespan, the river’s shipping infrastructure faces an uncertain future.
Featured Stories
PERSONAL HISTORY
The Power and Possibility of Dayton’s Oregon District
An elegy for a wounded place.
CITIES
Eastern Market and the Quest for Authenticity
In Detroit, changes to a historic market raise questions around equity and development.
COMMENTARY
A Love Letter to Dayton
"When I became editor-in-chief of the city’s alt weekly, Dayton City Paper, it became my job to know Dayton intimately."
POSTCARD
Commemorating Chicago’s Red Summer of 1919
Photos of key sites and commemorative events on the 100th anniversary of Eugene Williams's murder.
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More Stories
A Conversation with Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killing
Kirsten Ginzky interviews the group's founder for Belt Publishing's "Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook."
The Future of Local News in Youngstown
What the closing of the city's only daily paper means for people in the community.
How Poverty Found a Home in the Chicago Suburbs
The changing geography of poverty in Illinois and across the country.
The Summer We Went to the Moon
That summer, my parents and I were arguing about God.
The Packard Presence in Columbus
Walking around Columbus, Ohio, the influence of Frank Packard's architecture is everywhere you look.
Protesting ICE Immigration Raids in Chicago
Thousands gathered in Chicago's Daley Plaza to protest migrant imprisonment and planned ICE raids in major U.S. cities.
The Enduring Legacy of the 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill
Nearly a decade after one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history, the landscape has changed.
Introduction: “This City is Killing Me”
The introduction to a new book on "community trauma and toxic stress in urban America."
Crossing in Miller (1889)
"a man stands, balancing, // one foot on one line and the other on another, touching the pulse / of two emergent powers"
The End of Youngstown’s Vindicator
The city's daily paper is closing down, leaving a gaping hole in the local journalism landscape.
The Rippling Effect of Baron Walker
In 2015, a study found Milwaukee's 53206 ZIP code imprisoned sixty-two percent of Black men under the age of thirty-four. Baron Walker was one of them.
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From the Archives
Unfertile Ground
On Toni Morrison, Black womanhood, and the Minnesota landscape.
Calls for Submissions
Call for Submissions: Dayton Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Dayton, Ohio, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: Youngstown Anthology (2nd Edition)
Announcing an anthology of stories from Youngstown, Ohio, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: INseparable
In search of features, essays, and poems that engage with the relationships between rural, urban, and suburban places in Indiana.
