Kari Pendleton News Today

A tribute to a few of the amazing people and places that left us in 2020, published in South Side Weeklys Best of the South Side issue.

All of us have been witness to the slow erasure of a once legendary building. Often these structures appear to have been resuscitated by their inevitable transition into something vapid like a boutique dental office, a pet grooming salon, or a chain restaurant, when really, theyve entered the Sunken Place. The building at 1449 S. Michigan, once the headquarters of the groundbreaking recording company Vee-Jay Records, had indeed seen its share of dark days; but now its home to the not-for-profit...