Roseland

Our podcast panel this week includes Marj Halperin, the award-winning journalist and communications consultant turned pundit and community activist.

Kay Plize is back, the Chicago journalist and publisher of Roseland Chicago 1972.

And sitting next to me in our WGN Radio studios is John Hanson from Block Club Chicago and WGN Radio and the Chicago Blackhawks and the President's Cup, although that's a once-a-year thing that we talked about a couple of episodes ago.

Every other year, actually.

Mm-hmm

... a Chicago teen who was killed in 2007, uh, while protecting his high school classmate out in Roseland, and that law bars residents from owning, buying, or transferring 125 different types of rifles, such as AR-15s.

There are also augmentation bans and things you can't add to a firearm, um, as well as ammunitions limits.

And so it's a wide encompassing law, and their challenge essentially states, you know, this is a common gun.

She is a community activist.

And Chicago journalist, Kay Plies, publisher of Roseland Chicago 1972, is here.

You can also be watching us, by the way, on YouTube, but the White Sox are playing even as we record this, or they're about to start playing, so, um, are you guys...

Do you guys have black and white fever? Are you all about the White Sox? Um-

A major shift tonight in maternity care on Chicago's Southside.

Roseland Community Hospital is expected to close its labor and delivery unit by the end of this month.

At least one doctor at Roseland says this loss for Chicago's Southside could put expected mothers at risk.

There have been more than seven or eight closures of labor and delivery units on the Southside within the last six to seven years.

Patients are traveling at least a half an hour.

And we used to go to, like- ...

some of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago, like neighborhoods, if you're familiar with Chicago, like Englewood, Roseland, Chatham, these places because these people...

A lot, a lot of people didn't have good credit, but w- every time I found people with good credit, they was, like, older people, and I typically got the sign-ups or whatever.

Mm-hmm.

Speaking of another long term Chicago and Mr.

B over at Old Fashioned Donuts, the long term donut shop since like 1972 out in Roseland.

I have seen them in their hunch over some glaze so many times over the years.

And just like his story and like a day in his life and what that looks like is something I would watch on repeat.