Real Men Charities
Parent nonprofit. Programs and community work.
Founded 1989About | Issue 264
This is South Side Drive.
Serving Chicago's South Side for over 30 years | Guide to the Good Life | Chicago
South Side Drive Magazine is the editorial home for Black Chicago's South Side. For more than thirty years, we have chronicled the people, places, and ideas that make up the Good Life on this side of the city. We are published by Real Men Charities, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1989 by Bing Edwards and the original Real Men Cook fathers. We circulate in print and digital across fourteen South Side communities.
Publisher's Note
Our mission is plain. We tell the truth about this neighborhood, beautifully. We center the people whose work has built it and the people whose work is keeping it alive. The Good Life is not a brochure. It is a living record. This magazine is part of that record. Yvette Moyo, Founder & Publisher
Three entities. One purpose.
A family of organizations.
South Side Drive Magazine
Editorial publication. Monthly print plus digital.
In print since 1995The Quarry Event Center
Venue. 2423 E. 75th St., Chicago, IL 60649.
Reclaimed industrial spaceFourteen communities.
Auburn Gresham Bronzeville Chatham East Chicago Englewood Greater Grand Crossing Hegewisch Hyde Park Park Manor Roseland South Chicago South Shore Washington Park Woodlawn
Milestones
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A timeline of the work.
1989
Real Men Charities founded by Bing Edwards and the original Real Men Cook fathers.
1995
South Side Drive Magazine launches in print as a community broadsheet.
2007
Relaunched as a full-color monthly.
2020
Expanded to a digital-first cadence.
2024
Dear Me Care Circle inaugural pre-Mother’s Day gathering.
2026
Distributed in fourteen South Side communities.
We proudly acknowledge support from the Chicago COVID-19 Journalism Fund (A McCormick Foundation Fund).
The MacArthur Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
Providence Bank & Trust