One Perfect Life: An Ode to the Real South Side

By Scoop Jackson “Pharaoh of the Sun/Lookin’ down the barrel of a gun/Y’all know where I’m from.” —from the poem “Keep On” by famous South Sider Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. (aka Common) We call them “pockets.” It’s the best way any of us who come from the South Side of Chicago can describe the drastic […]