City of Win is a series curated by Isiah “ThoughtPoet” Veney and written by Joshua Eferighe that uses prose and photography to create portraits of Chicago musicians and cultural innovators working to create positive change in their communities.

On Saturday, September 6, around 7 PM, if you’d happened to be walking down the alley behind the Half Evil clothing shop in Wicker Park, you would’ve been in for a surprise.

Between the dumpsters behind the streetwear store and the garages of the homes across the alley, underneath the Blue Line, you would have found 30 or 40 people, mostly in their teens and twenties, partying at a pop-up concert with Chicago underground rappers Thirteendegrees° , Zootzie , and BurloDaVirgo .

The twist? All three of them performed out of the back of a U-Hau

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