- News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns
Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2013
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The man who transformed high school baseball on the south side
Simeon Career Academy's veteran high school coach has spent three decades building an unlikely baseball dynasty. Will Leroy Franklin and his Wolverines finally get the recognition they deserve?
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Apr 18, 2013
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A diet based on sacrifice
Counting carbs, but not for the reason you think
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 17, 2013
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Of Paramount's importance
Record Store Day is a good day to remember that a subsidiary of a Wisconsin furniture company released some of the most significant blues records of the 1920s.
- Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Apr 3, 2013
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A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation
A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
- Music, Music Feature, Feb 20, 2013
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Tim'm West and the masculine mystique
In his career as a hip-hop artist—and now through his work at the Center on Halsted—West has demonstrated that there's more than one way to be a black gay man.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 6, 2012
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View of Obama from his backyard: "You need another four years"
Election Day voters on the south side of Chicago explain why they're still committed to Obama
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
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City sheds hundreds more jobs in black and Hispanic neighborhoods
Black and Hispanic neighborhoods bear the brunt of Mayor Emanuel's belt tightening
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 17, 2012
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Two students, two high schools, two divergent paths to college
Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 22, 2012
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Deadly poverty
Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago's poor black neighborhoods
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 4, 2012
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No pun left behind
In praise of the lower form of wit.
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 6, 2012
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The color of his skin
A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 29, 2012
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The color of his skin
Joe Henson was killed because he was black. Forty years later, the daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death. Part 1 of 2.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2012
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City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest
City job cuts hit black and Hispanic neighborhoods hardest
- Music, Music Feature, Nov 10, 2011
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Who is Dancin' Man?
Perry Kanlan has shared stages with James Brown and the Jackson Five, and he's a familiar face to generations of south-side clubgoers. How did he get there?
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 11, 2011
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Father, husband, schizophrenic
Schizophrenia afflicts three times as many blacks as whites. David Mailey is among its victims, but he’s persevering.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 27, 2011
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Lord Thing and The Corner
Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries "The Corner" and "Lord Thing" Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.
- News & Features, Politics, Dec 9, 2010
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The Real Residency Issue
Can a north-sider be mayor?
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2010
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Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture
Mark Richard Smith's documentary "Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture" has a preview screening Sunday 3/14 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 18, 2009
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75 Years of Gefilte Fish
Robert Schuffler has 75 years' worth of opinions on how his fish customers have changed
