United Northwest Side

With early voting starting in wards across Chicago tomorrow, check out our full list of endorsed candidates for the primary election!

Want to help us support this strong progressive slate on Election Day--Tuesday, 3/17? RSVP to join us for polling place support at bit.ly/uns-election-day-2026

An event flyer with a semi-abstract blue, white, and black background advertising a bike ride to 4150 N Long Ave for a Portage Park safe streets meeting hosted by the Chicago Department of Transportation.

Ride with us to CDOT's Portage Park in support of the new neighborhood network. We're taking off at 5:30 sharp from the Logan Square Monument to the PP Senior Center OR meet up with our friends at Cosmic Bikes for a quick jaunt over at 5:50.

⏰ Wedenesday 3/5 @ 5:30p
📍 Logan Square Monument

Juanita Irizarry For Cook County Board of Review

Learn more about how to support Juanita's campaign at www.juanitairizarry.com and make sure to vote for her on your primary ballot!

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United Northwest Side is proud to endorse to Juanita Irizarry for the Cook County Board of Review.

Juanita is running to make sure that wealthy corporations pay their share of property taxes, rather than allowing them to shift the burden onto working families.

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Come on by for the next installment of the monthly NW Side Queer Potluck—Friday, March 6th, 6:30pm at 5150 N. Northwest Highway!

A couple of great ways to support strong progressive NW Side candidates tomorrow—come on by!

We’ll be out this weekend in support of our endorsed candidates—Sunday, February 1st, 1pm at the Independence Park Fieldhouse. Come join us!

RSVP at bit.ly/dayofaction-0201

Join us tomorrow—6pm at the Jeff Park Library!

RSVP at bit.ly/uns-jan-meeting

Looking to meet neighbors working to build a stronger, more progressive NW Side? Come join us for our next public general meeting--on Thursday, 1/22 at the Jefferson Park Library.

RSVP at bit.ly/uns-jan-meeting and we'll see you there!

Join United Northwest Side for our next public general meeting--Thursday, 1/22, from 6-7pm at the Jefferson Park Library.

Come meet neighbors who want to help build the community that we all deserve!

RSVP at bit.ly/uns-jan-meeting and we'll plan to see you there.

Tomorrow night, we’ll see you there!

Gardiner, like Trump, doesn’t care about working people and doesn’t offer any solutions to the rising costs of living in Chicago.

His only move, again like Trump, is to demonize immigrants.

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com

The next edition of the NW Side Queer Potluck is coming up, Friday January 2nd at 6:30pm—RSVP via the link in the graphic and we’ll see you there!

The invitation features a dark blue background, white and light blue accents, and dark pink flowers. It invites people to a karaoke holiday fundraiser at Cafe Mustache from 5pm to 8pm on December 13. Sponsorship levels range from $35 to $5,000. You can RSVP at bit.ly/gracielaholiday25

All I want for Christmas is to karaoke with friends, neighbors, and loved ones! We will be singing, building community, enjoying food and drinks, and celebrating our shared resilience and love for each other this December at Cafe Mustache.

State's Attorney Burke City Club Speech Disrupted By Protesters Today, Cook County State’s Attorney Eilieen O’Neill Burke spoke at a luncheon hosted by City Club to celebrate her first year in office. The speaking engagement was repeatedly disrupted by community members who were dismayed with the direction Burke has taken the office in. Statement from Protesters: “In the year since State’s Attorney Burke took office, the number of people caged in Cook County Jail has gone up by nearly 15%. This would be disturbing at any time but is truly shocking at this moment when our county has seen some of the biggest decreases in crime in decades. We have seen the impact mass incarceration has had on our neighborhoods and we are not safer for it. Our communities worked tirelessly to rollback some of the worst impacts of the Cook County State’s Attorney Office and now Burke is returning to the corrupt and racist policies that made Chicago internationally known for its corruption. We are not safe when people are locked up while awaiting trial, costing them employment, and housing. We are not safer when thousands of innocent men and women are fighting for post convictions to gain their justice and freedom after decades of being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned. We need to invest in our communities, not incarcerate them. We are sounding the alarm, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neil Burke must go!”

in a press release, protesters accuse state's attorney o'neill burke of "returning to the corrupt and racist policies that made Chicago internationally known for its corruption."

from the inbox:

protesters disrupted a city club luncheon today celebrating cook county state's attorney eileen o'neill burke's first year in office. demonstrators denounced a "truly shocking" 14% increase in people jailed pretrial.

"burke and trump are the same, lock you up and pass the blame!"

Learn more about Karina at karinavilla.com, and keep a lookout here for ways to support her campaign going forward.

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United Northwest Side is proud to endorse Karina Villa for IL Comptroller.

Karina's work as a school board member, state rep, and state senator has shown her to be a true progressive champion, and we're excited for her to bring the people's message to the comptroller's office!

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Learn more at miguelfor40.org and stay tuned here for ways to support in the weeks ahead!

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…as a labor organizer for domestic and migrant workers, as a community mutual aid coordinator, and much more.

We're excited to get to work to help make Miguel our next 40th District State Representative, and hope that you will join us.

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In a time of ongoing attacks against our communities, we need our elected officials--at every level of government--to be front and center in the fight against fascist cruelty.

Miguel has spent over a decade doing just this kind of work…

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United Northwest Side is proud to endorse Miguel Alvelo-Rivera for State Representative in the 40th District.

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the cook county public defender's office not mincing words in its response to a plan to allow all chicago cops to directly file felony weapons possession charges.

"This policy abandons prosectors’ duty to review felony charges and simply hands that responsibilities over to police."

"The program has the support of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling."

Outrageous.

All three of them.

Cook County becomes the first county in the US to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income  • The TRiiBE On Thursday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved the FY 2026 budget, which includes $7.5 million to fund the county’s guaranteed basic income program.

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level.

The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion.

thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

The city plans to continue to sweep northwest side encampments, but there's no emergency shelter in that area for single unhoused Chicagoans to go to. A tentative city-state partnership is looking to change that. I wrote about it for week's Make it Make Sense:

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.

Several Chicago newsrooms spent two months collecting and analyzing evidence of ICE & Border Patrol's use of tear gas and pepper spray in Chicago.

They found that agents deployed chemical agents nearly 50 times. Most uses occurred after a judge ordered federal agents to restrict their use.

The superrich have so much money they can “donate” millions without feeling it. Not to charities, but to putting out propaganda like this.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...