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FEATURE
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
Featured Stories
ENVIRONMENT
PERSONAL HISTORY
Akron’s Vietnam
How the war touched one Northeast Ohio neighborhood.
POETRY
Rebel Girl of West Ridge
From the Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook.
FIELD NOTES
The Rebirth of a Regional Library
After a long period of disinvestment and decline, Chicago’s first regional library is returning to prominence.
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More Stories
Top Stories of 2019
Ten stories our readers kept coming back to.
Home Again at the Southside Reunion
In Flint, Michigan, a gathering of the descendants of the men and women who joined the ‘Great Migration.’
Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District
In the Ohio 4th, as in gerrymandered districts all over the country, democracy is at stake.
Con Amor Por Southwest Detroit
Volver, Volver//These spaces still hold your treasures,these pieces y cosas/that I can no longer hold in my hand
Robert Smith’s Last Ride
The first person in West Virginia to die from the Spanish Flu pandemic was an incarcerated Black man.
Wheeling Island’s Keeper of the Bees
On the most populated Ohio River island, this beekeeper found a way to better himself and his community.
Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays
The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.
Crossing Over
From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Smoke in the Valley
What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for communities in the region and beyond.
Rust Belt Independents
How one Indiana community rejected Trumpism.
The Fate of the Scrappers
The Mahoning Valley Scrappers have been a symbol of the region's comeback narrative. Now, Minor League Baseball may phase them out.
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From the Archives
The Polish Christmas Eve Feast that Helped Me Find Home
"I’ll never lose Wigilia because it’s not just a tradition; it’s a way of being."
News
Call for Submissions: Gary Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories about Gary, Indiana, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: Black Midwest Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories about the Black Midwest to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: Lawrence Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Lawrence, Kansas, to be published by Belt Publishing.
