These are heady times for Wednesday Journal contributor Kwame Salter, whose 19-year-old granddaughter, Yara Shahidi, was recently named a 2019 Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine.

Knockout Farm, which is a therapeutic urban garden operated on the site of ReUse Depot, 50 Madison St. in Maywood, was one of only three therapeutic gardens across the country to win grants and in-kind donations from several sponsoring organizations.

As the Chicago Public Schools teachers' strike moves into its second week, the stomachs and wallets of city teachers get emptier and emptier. A labor strike is not unlike a siege.

Reality often has a way of making it onto Jesse Howard's canvas.