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This is story 2 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?”
This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds of internal emails and public documents about the rich legacy of the “castle,” as members fondly referred to the building, the conflicts that led to its sale, and the changing face of the boulevard.

Story by Emeline Posner
Read by Chima Ikoro
Produced by Erisa Apantaku

Music:
Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182517
Delicates by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182516
Checkered Blue by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182544
The Maison by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182513
Taoudella by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182515

This is story 1 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?”
This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds of internal emails and public documents about the rich legacy of the “castle,” as members fondly referred to the building, the conflicts that led to its sale, and the changing face of the boulevard.

Story by Emeline Posner
Read by Chima Ikoro
Produced by Erisa Apantaku

Music:
Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182517
Delicates by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182516
Checkered Blue by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182544
The Maison by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182513
Taoudella by Blue Dot Sessions: app.sessions.blue/browse/track/182515

This is story 3 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?”
This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds of internal emails and public documents about the rich legacy of the “castle,” as members fondly referred to the building, the conflicts that led to its sale, and the changing face of the boulevard.

Story by Emeline Posner
Read by Chima Ikoro
Produced by Erisa Apantaku

Music:
Bauxite by Blue Dot Sessions
Delicates by Blue Dot Sessions
Checkered Blue by Blue Dot Sessions
The Maison by Blue Dot Sessions
Taoudella by Blue Dot Sessions

The Exchange: The Weekly's poetry corner offers our thoughts in exchange for yours

With me
by Armani Rogers
Read by Armani Rogers

Submissions can be sent to bit.ly/ssw-exchange or via email to chima.ikoro@southsideweekly.com.

The Exchange: The Weekly's poetry corner offers our thoughts in exchange for yours

Blindspot
By Vernique Dyson
Read by Vernique Dyson

Submissions can be sent to bit.ly/ssw-exchange or via email to chima.ikoro@southsideweekly.com.

From the roaring twenties to the cold sixties, Mexicans in the Chicago area embodied a diverse, pluralist society where political, cultural, and religious continuums converged, seeding the region’s contemporary Mexican-American civilization. An interview of book author Dr. John H. Flores by Matthew Carnero Macías for South Side Weekly.