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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>For most of the year, Chicagoans endure the cold, keeping people indoors longing for warmer days. Summertime Chi, a term made popular in Kanye West\u2019s song, \u201cGood Life\u201d with T-Pain, is when Windy City residents come outside and relish all that their city has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSummertime Chi runs in my blood,\u201d said Tenisha Tidwell, a Chicago native and \u201cNABJ Baby,\u201d who completed NABJ\u2019s Student Multimedia Project in 1997. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eric, a chef at Harold’s Chicken and Waffles 88, a favorite restaurant among Black residents, welcomes summer but warns people about the crime that comes with it, a trend the University of Chicago Crime Lab confirms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI love Chicago, don\u2019t get me wrong,\u201d he says. \u201cKids is just getting out of hand.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tidewell, whose father was killed on the Southside and who has been the victim of gun violence, says that does not dampen her love of the city. She got married on Navy Pier and comes home from Atlanta frequently. She gives back to Chicago through the Ezekiel Taylor Scholarship Foundation she started for young Black men who are affected by gun violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI will always have a special place in my heart\u201d for Chicago, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eric agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s a good city; it’s just the people that you deal with,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael O., a resident from Ghana who declined to give his last name, said summer brings tourists, but that\u2019s not what makes Summertime Chi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDuring the winter you don’t see people out like that. You know everybody’s mostly indoors,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you really want to see Chicago, come during the summer, you\u2019ll see Chicago at its best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018If you really want to see Chicago, come during the summer; you\u2019ll see Chicago at its best\u2019 Photos and text by Eleazar Yisrael For most of the year, Chicagoans endure the cold, keeping people indoors […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community-interest","8":"category-latest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}