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The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.

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Cover Story: Home sweet home for the homeless. For thousands of Chicagoans "living outside," home is still where they make it. Politics: DuPage Democrats have a chance to unseat Roskam, Trump’s health-care rubber-stamper The Sixth District congressman could be vulnerable in his 2018 reelection bid. Food: The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet invokes poetry in lieu of personality. Mike Sula reviews chef Jessica Nowicki and Sommelier Tom Powers’s new Randolph Street spot.

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My Fair Lady Civic Opera House
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Minor Local Slumpage Chicago Artists Coalition
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