American Theater Company’s fresh-faced artistic director credits his gender transition with a creative awakening. Now the 33-year-old looks to turn the venerable North Center playhouse into a place of “wild theatricality.”
Cover Story: American Theater Company’s fresh-faced artistic director Will Davis credits his gender transition with a creative awakening. Now the 33-year-old looks to turn the venerable North Center playhouse into a place of “wild theatricality.”
Music: Ben Burden blends hip-hop, R&B, and pushback against toxic masculinity. After an injury ended his soccer career , he came to Chicago to find his true self in music.
News & Politics: The economic causes of Chicago’s violence The city continues to pursue policies that advance inequity.
With the Supreme Court debating racial discrimination on juries, we look back at a Reader cover story from 2005 that examined Cook County's own problem with the issue.
“We will have to struggle over the coming period as we have never struggled before,” said the famed radical feminist. “Freedom is a constant struggle."
"We may find that the country can never fully repay African Americans," Ta-Nehisi Coates writes. "But we stand to discover much about ourselves in such a discussion."