- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 14, 2012
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More local options for African cuisines
Lake Langano, Den Den, Palace Gate, and other notable African restaurants
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 15, 2012
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The shot that brought the projects down, part four of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part four of five
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 12, 2012
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The Reader's Agenda: Sun 8/12
What's on the Agenda for Sunday, August 12, 2012
- Music, Three Beats, Jul 17, 2012
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The noise scene's lost Enemy, a trumpeter's growth spurt, and one schmaltzy goodbye
Good-bye to Baby Teeth and experimental-music venue Enemy, hello to young trumpeter Marquis Hill
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2012
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Garry McCarthy makes it to Chatham
A year after his no-show, Chicago's police chief talks with residents of the proud south-side neighborhood
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 26, 2011
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Where McCarthy was: attending an event that was canceled
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 25, 2011
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Faced with a cop shortage, some officials look to private policing
- News & Features, Politics, Aug 25, 2011
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Where’s Garry McCarthy?
A frustrated south-side community invites Chicago’s new police superintendent to a “dialogue”
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 22, 2011
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Kiss & Tell
Darryl Pitts and a host of celebrity interviewees critique cinematic images of African American romance in Pitts's documentary "Kiss & Tell," screening Thursday 2/24 in Black World Cinema's "Truth Be Told" series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 4, 2010
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Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon
The documentary "Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon," about the Afrobeat pioneer, screens Thursday in the Black World Cinema Series.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 26, 2010
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Chatham Walmart Heads to Full City Council
The finance committee pushes the city's third Walmart through with one dissenting vote.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 23, 2010
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Walmart Number Three?
Daley wants a third Walmart approved by next week.
- News & Features, Politics, May 20, 2010
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The Shadow Budget: Who Wins in Daley's TIF Game
The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they're really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2010
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Skin
Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo plays a young woman at the center of a racial controversy in apartheid South Africa in "Skin," screens Thursday 2/4.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2010
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The Wal-Mart Beat Gets Weird
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 6, 2010
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The Man and the Dream
"Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and the Dream" screens Thursday 1/7 at Chatham 14.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 5, 2009
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Black World Cinema
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 30, 2009
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"But the cavalry never came, and they are tired of waiting."
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 1, 2009
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7/2, 7/8 -- Got swag?
The "Got Milk?" campaign gives away milk, smoothies, massages, health screenings with dietitians, and souvenir milk mustache photos.
