Northside Action For Justice

03/26/2026

Congratulations to Marc Kaplan for being honored with the Voice of the People’s Sweet Home Uptown Champion award!
Marc Kaplan, one of the founding and leadership team members of Northside Action for Justice (NA4J) has been honored as one of the Voice of the People’s Sweet Home Uptown Champions. Kaplan began organizing in Chicago in the early 1970s, where he helped build grassroots movements rooted in racial, economic, and social justice. His organizing has impacted many lives, with work ranging from the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, tenant organizing, youth engagement, and political and legal advocacy, and of course, housing justice. We are proud of you, Marc!

11/28/2025

Today!

11/07/2025

Join us in a discussion about SNAP and Medicaid at tomorrow’s NA4J meeting. All are welcome!
Hybrid meeting: zoom link:bit.ly/na4jmeeting or in person 1020 W Bryn Mawr Ave.

10/18/2025

Join us at 12 pm today!

10/11/2025

Join us for our meeting today, Saturday, Oct. 11 2025
In person or zoom: bit.ly/na4jmeeting
10am-11:30 am

09/06/2025

Join us today - September 6 at 5 pm- Ida B. Wells and Michigan

08/31/2025

Tomorrow on Labor Day! Join us!

08/09/2025

Join us tomorrow for our monthly meeting and learn more about the Weiss Hospital struggle and how you can support!
hybrid meeting - zoom link: bit.ly/na4jmeeting
Or in person at the Edgewater Presbyterian Church
Saturday August 9 at 10 am

08/08/2025

TODAY!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Friday, August 7, 2025
Contact: Marc Kaplan, Northside Action 4 Justice, 773-407-2001

ADVISORY: Weiss Hospital Staff and Community Rally to Mourn Weiss Hospital Closure, Call for its Reopening

Chicago, Illinois –– Weiss Memorial Hospital plans to shutter its ER at 7am on Friday, August 8, 2025. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of termination, effective this Saturday, August 9 due to cited concerns around nursing services, emergency protocols, and physical environment at Weiss. Patients and staff deserve high quality healthcare conditions. With the hospital closing, the thousands of patients and hundreds of staff who depend on Weiss Memorial Hospital for their healthcare and livelihoods will be hung out to dry. This is part of a larger story of disinvestment, corporate neglect of community, safety-net hospitals like Weiss and private, for-profit speculation in Uptown.

WHO: Weiss Emergency Room doctors, nurses and staff; state and local elected officials; community members; Northside Action 4 Justice, Vietnamese Association of Illinois, ONE Northside and other community organizations

WHEN: Friday, August 8, 2025 at 1pm

WHERE: outside the shuttered Weiss Emergency Room (on Clarendon)

SPEAKERS: list in formation

WHAT: Press conference, rally, and mourning with doctors, nurses, hospital staff and community members holding signs

Vietnamese Association of Illinois
ONE Northside

08/08/2025

Chicago neighbors! 📣

Update about Weiss Hospital, which is on the brink of closure. Here are some VERY urgent action steps to show our federal and state elected officials and the CEO of the hospital, Dr. Prasad, how much hospitals like Weiss mean for our communities. Weiss has served as a critical healthcare anchor for decades, delivering essential medical services to thousands of residents across Uptown and Edgewater neighborhood.

1) click to email to Sen. Durbin, Rep. Schakowsky, Sen. Duckworth, Rep. Quigley, and Gov. Pritzker to ask them to take immediate action to contact the federal agency (CMS) to keep the hospital open:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/save-weiss-memorial-hospital?source=direct_link&

2) click to send an email directly to Dr. Prasad, the CEO of the hospital, who is not working cooperatively with our elected officials in our effort to keep the hospital open: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/save-weiss-memorial-hospital-2?source=direct_link&

3) Attend a rally tomorrow, Friday, 1pm outside the ER entrance of Weiss Hospital on Clarendon to rally with hospital staff and community members. Media has been invited.

4) sign our petition to save the hospital: bit.ly/SaveWeiss

Thank you all!

ONE Northside
Vietnamese Association of Illinois

Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, a safety net hospital located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, is on the brink of closure. Weiss has served as a critical healthcare anchor for decades, delivering essential medical services to thousands of residents across Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods.....

08/06/2025

SAVE WEISS HOSPITAL!

We now stand to lose Weiss Hospital after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of termination, effective August 9, which will remove Weiss from the Medicare program due to cited concerns around nursing services, emergency protocols, and physical environment. As our earlier campaign predicted, the sale of the Weiss Hospital parking lot to build a luxury condo and the inadequate resources provided by Resilience, the hospital’s new owners would eventually lead to the demise of the hospital.
We need time to develop a campaign that would force the adequate resources and the sale of the hospital to a provider that would bring in resources and stabilize the hospital.
PLEASE JOIN ONE Northside, Vietnamese Association of Illinois, and Northside Action For Justice lN SAVING THIS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL!
We are asking to get an 8-week extension on the deadline for Weiss ownership to make the repairs needed to be compliant to receive Medicare payments.
Scan the QR code to join us in this demand and sign our letter on OR go to bit.ly/SaveWeiss