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- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 19, 2009
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A Kink in the Campaign
If his challenge to Deb Mell's nominating petition succeeds, state rep candidate Joe Laiacona just might run unopposed in the Democratic primary. But can a leather master actually win in the general election?
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 19, 2009
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Joe Laiacona's Challenge to Deb Mell's Petition
The full document
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: From Amaranth to Job's Tears
On local menus: creative preparations of rare and unusual grains
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: The Best New Restaurants of 2009
From Browntrout to Zebda
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue
Rare pigs, vexing cheese, heirloom grains, black pepper gelato, farming for the city, and the best new restaurants of 2009
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: Meet the Mangalitsas
Local chefs invest in a rare breed of pig said to be the Wagyu of the pork world.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: Ambassador of Pepe Nero
A gelato-smitten entrepreneur brings the unconventional Paciugo chain to Chicago.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: My Mozzarella
Fast, easy, inexpensive, and delicious to make at home? I beg to differ.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: City Farm
From a Chicago couple, a Wisconsin organic farm that understands its urban customers
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Nov 5, 2009
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Fall Books Special: The Gritty City
New books about old murders, queer underworlds, race wars, and more
- Lit & Lectures, Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Nov 5, 2009
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Fall Books Special: The Night Fred Hampton Died
An excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader's death and its aftermath by People's Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas
- News & Commentary, Feature, Oct 29, 2009
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The Actor’s Letter
A reminiscence from film noir icon Robert Ryan, newly unearthed by his daughter, sheds light on his Chicago childhood—and his family's connection to a tragic chapter in the city's history.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Oct 22, 2009
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The Shadow Budget
The Daley administration commands an off-the-books kitty of taxpayer money equivalent to a sixth of the official city budget. Now we’ve got documents that show what they want to do with it.
- News & Commentary, Our Town, Oct 22, 2009
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Walgreens Can't Kill Quirk
Ousted by the chain, Oak Park's independent Sears Pharmacy keeps its sense of humor.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Oct 15, 2009
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Is It Too Easy to Clobber a Cabbie?
Walid Ziada's fellow cabbies say his attackers are getting off lightly—despite a new state law intended to protect taxi drivers
- Movies, Movie Feature, Oct 8, 2009
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The Reader's Guide to the 45th Chicago International Film Festival: Week One
Selected films making their Chicago premieres at the festival through Thursday, October 15
- News & Commentary, Feature, Oct 8, 2009
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Police Torture in Chicago
An archive of articles by John Conroy on police torture and related issues
- News & Commentary, Feature, Oct 1, 2009
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The Made-Up Life and Real Death of Clyde Angel
The Made-Up Life and Real Death of Clyde Angel: The identity of a popular but mysterious outsider artist is revealed. Or so it seems.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Sep 24, 2009
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Lost to Lariam?
When Juan Torres heard his son had died on an air base in Afghanistan, he became convinced that he’d been murdered—perhaps for knowing too much about the heroin trade on the base. But now he and many others believe John Torres was driven to suicide by a legal drug he was required to use—the antimalarial mefloquine hydrochloride, brand name Lariam.
- News & Commentary, Feature, Sep 17, 2009
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The Nest Issue: The Best Room In The House
Six Chicagoans show us their favorite living spaces: Busy Beaver button lady Christen Carter, Columbia assistant prof and fashion scholar Virginia Heaven, arts advocate Paul Klein and floral designer Amy Crum, architect Brad Lynch, and artist Jackie Seiden
