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News & Features, Feature, Sep 1, 2011
The price of intolerance, part 1

Racial tensions on Chicago's south side had been simmering for years when, on September 1, 1971, the animosity boiled over—forever altering the lives of two men.
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, racial tension, racial intolerance, Back of the Yards, ghettoes, neighborhood demographics

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News & Features, Feature, Jul 1, 2010
What Else You Should Know About Walmart

It's not just the low wages or the near-scientific union busting. It's the preference for poverty, the business model built on turnover, the manipulative PR. Is this really the best way to bring jobs and food to the south and west sides?
- by Max Brooks
- Tags: Feature, Nelson Lichtenstein, Wal-Mart, Walmart, The Retail Revolution, Discount Store News, servant leaders, unions, Mayor Daley, Pullman Walmart, City Council, City Council zoning committee, Chicago Federation of Labor, minimum wage, Sam Walton, Walmart Supercenter, Emma Mitts, UFCW, Target, Costco, Bradley's, TIF, TIFs, tax increment financing, community benefit agreements, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, Kroger, Safeway, Union Probability Index, Unaddressed People Issues index

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News & Features, Feature, Jul 28, 2011
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The grappler

Indy pro wrestler Colt Cabana fought his way to the WWE, only to find that the real path to success was to build a mini media empire of his own
- by Tom Breihan
- Tags: Feature, Colt Cabana, Scott Colton, WWE, C.M. Punk, The Art of Wrestling, indy wrestling, The Wrestling Road Diaries, Austin Aries, Mad Man Pondo, Damian Abraham, Fucked Up, arc Maron, Marty DeRosa, $5 Wrestling, Chikara, Logan Square Auditorium, Matt Classic, Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Monday Night Raw, Slideshow

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News & Features, Feature, Apr 27, 2011
The Original Pink Ladies

Grease's girl gang had a real-life model on the northwest side.
- by Cynthia Gallaher
- Tags: Feature, Grease, Pink Ladies, Taft High School, Kingston Mines, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, American Theater Company

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News & Features, Feature, Mar 24, 2011
How To Fix the El

The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project is a rare chance to rethink Chicago’s rail system. Here’s what we should do.
- by Ed Zotti
- Tags: Feature, CTA, Chicago Transit Authority, The El, Red Line, Purple Line, Richard Rodriguez, Straight Dope, Cecil Adams

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News & Features, Feature, Nov 26, 2009
The Charcuterie Underground

In the view of a burgeoning number of outlaw bacon curers and sausage grinders, some rules are made to be broken.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Feature, North Pond, Frontera Grill, E & P Meats, Big Green Egg, Helge Pedersen, Laurence Mate, This Little Piggy, charcuterie, bacon, pulled pork, Calabrian salami, nduja, Chicago Department of Public Health, Upton Sinclair, Tim Hadac, Michael Pollan, Susan Mahnke Peery, Charles G. Reavis, Home Sausage Making, Kendall College, petit sale, Meat Week, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points

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News & Features, Feature, May 6, 2010
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How Howard Got His History Back

A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works.
- by Leah Pietrusiak
- Tags: Feature, 1970s, Dave Mata, Howard Simmons, Jesse Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, South Side Community Arts Center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Through the Eyes of Blackness, John White, Ovie Carter, Bob Black, John H. Johnson, Ebony, Michael Jordan, Coca-Cola, Emmett Till, Mamie Till-Mobley, Warner Saunders, Mark Giangreco, Mayor Richard J. Daley, P.J. Cullerton, James Brown, Coretta Scott King, John Drummond, Carol Marin, Burrell, Vince Cullers, Black Family Magazine, Ebony Fashion Fair, John Tweedle, Chicago Daily News, McDonald's, Leo Burnett, Walter Payton, Herbie Hancock, Victor Powell, Harold Washington, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Slideshow

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News & Features, Feature, Nov 11, 2010
The Way of Dr. Tae

This disillusioned physics professor couldn't fix the education system—so he fixed a Tony Hawk video game instead.
- by Ryan Smith
- Tags: Feature, Yung Tae Kim, skateboarding, video games, game controllers, gaming, Josh Tsui, Patrick Dwyer, Russ Pitts, Richard "Pip" Potter, Richard Potter, Robomodo, Activision, Tony Hawk, Tony Hawk: Ride, Tony Hawk: Shred

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News & Features, Feature, Sep 23, 2010
Filed Away?

"Honorably terminated" teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can't get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague's bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.
- by Ben Joravsky and Dave Glowacz
- Tags: Feature, Mike Quigley, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, Ron Huberman, Chicago Teachers Union, Megan Ruthaivilavan, Peace and Education Coalition Alternative High School, education, Lourdes Guerrero, Von Steuben high school, Nancy Kirby, Cesar Chavez, teacher ratings, DNH list, DNH, do-not-hire designation, Sara Echevarria, Joseph Moriarty, bureaucracy, principals, Sunny Neater-DuBow, Multicultural Arts High School, redefinition, Brigitte Swenson, Richard M. Daley, Mayor Daley, Arne Duncan, Pedro Alonso, John Kugler, Monique Bond, David Coar, Chicago Tribune

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News & Features, Feature, Dec 1, 2011
The politics of pot

Are our politicians too paranoid to decriminalize marijuana?
- by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Feature, Grass Gap, marijuana, pot, marijuana arrests, Cook County, marjauna legalization, John Fritchey, Chicago Police Departmnet, police work, marijuana tax, Rahm Emanuel, John Fritchey, Danny Solis, medical marijuana, Lou Lang, La Shawn Ford, legalize and tax marijuana

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News & Features, Feature, Oct 13, 2011
The Reader's 40th Anniversary Issue

Celebrating four decades of muckraking and mischief
- Tags: Feature, Chicago Reader at 40, Reader at 40 Issue

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"Getting beat up by boys I wanted to blow me was no fun"

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People all over Chicago smoke pot—but almost everyone busted for it is black

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At the Cornerstone Christian rock festival, a fallen evangelical returns to sing about why he broke up with God.

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Slow packs? Backward skating? A new style of roller derby from the west has traditionally dominant teams—like the Windy City Rollers All-Stars—scrambling to catch up.

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Mince pie was once inextricable from our national identity. Blamed for bad health, murderous dreams, the downfall of Prohibition, and the decline of the white race, it nonetheless persisted as an American staple through the 1940s. So what happened?

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Theaster Gates is fighting blight with artists-in-residence

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Who has access to Rahm Emanuel’s inner sanctum

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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.

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Charter schools are the fastest-growing part of Chicago's public education system, but how they spend our tax money is mostly a secret

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Racial tensions on Chicago's south side had been simmering for years when, on September 1, 1971, the animosity boiled over—forever altering the lives of two men.

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It's not just the low wages or the near-scientific union busting. It's the preference for poverty, the business model built on turnover, the manipulative PR. Is this really the best way to bring jobs and food to the south and west sides?

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Indy pro wrestler Colt Cabana fought his way to the WWE, only to find that the real path to success was to build a mini media empire of his own

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Grease's girl gang had a real-life model on the northwest side.

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The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project is a rare chance to rethink Chicago’s rail system. Here’s what we should do.

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In the view of a burgeoning number of outlaw bacon curers and sausage grinders, some rules are made to be broken.

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A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works.

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This disillusioned physics professor couldn't fix the education system—so he fixed a Tony Hawk video game instead.

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"Honorably terminated" teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can't get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague's bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.

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Are our politicians too paranoid to decriminalize marijuana?

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Celebrating four decades of muckraking and mischief

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