Neighborhood Science
AV PapachristosField Notes from the intersection of data and neighborhood life
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Riding Down Western
Bike under the ‘L (not on Western Ave). Photo by AV Papachristos.
They don’t call Chicago the Windy City because of the weather—that nickname comes from politics. But try telling that to anyone who’s ridden a motorcycle down Lake Shore Dr...
Neighborhood Watch
Photograph: Community members document federal ICE operations in Chicago. (Photo credit: Genaro Molina/Getty Images, via Wired)
On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse from Minneapolis, was filming federal...
The Lights Are Back On
The silence here has been real, but so has the reason: I’ve been in the final stretch of a very long (very overdue) book manuscript. That draft is now in the hands of my editor.
While that draft moves its way through editing and towards pu...
The Blues Brothers at 45
DIBS. Quick takes worth claiming: fresh observations about neighborhood life and urban change.
Image Source: intoflims.org
There aren't many hills I would die on, but this is one of them: The Blues Brothers is the greatest Chicago film of...
The Pope, The Parish, and Chicago(land)'s Holy Geography
Source: https://thesimplecatholic.blog/tag/meme-monday/
The moment white smoke billowed from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel chimney, my phone exploded with texts: "The new pope is from Chicago!"
Chicago, I knew, was about to go pope-crazy...
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Sociologist and Writer - studying how neighborhoods work. Professor at Northwestern, Director of The Institute for Policy Research, and Faculty Director of Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research and Science (CORNERS).
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