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Biweekly newspaper that covered six wards in the northwest side in the 1980s. Circulation of 21,000 copies. This issue covered education, politics, sports, lifestyle advice, and coverage of local upcoming events.

Other Voices was an independent literary magazine affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago dedicated to publishing fresh, original, diverse stories and novel excerpts. No. 47, with a special focus on Chicago writers, was the final issue.

Short stories from west side neighborhoods of Chicago. "The force of each writer's vision and language carries you into the living rooms and kitchens where the real folk of the West Side go about the business of living. 'West Side Stories' presents the everyday, the brutal, the glorious."