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Serenity Now! creates a sober space for performers in a booze-filled industry

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Stand-up Whitney Wasson wanted to create a healthier environment for people in recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction.

By Brianna Wellen

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Raised Voices

Anya Davidson delivers a comics report from the Women’s March to the Polls.

By Anya Davidson
Blogs

Rauner and Prizker tout government transparency while blocking access to records

Will Illinois's candidates for governor ever practice what they preach?

By Mick Dumke
News & Politics

The long death of Jean Lalime

A classic tale of Chicago corruption, and also of rabbinical law, frontier justice, and the city’s first murder

By Paul Dailing

Pop-Up Magazine redefines the art of storytelling

By Marykate O'Meara | 10.19.18
A note from the editor

By Anne Elizabeth Moore | 10.19.18
Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader

By Ryan Smith | 10.18.18
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Cave return with their first new music in five years, and it’s worth the wait

By Luca Cimarusti | 10.18.18
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Ike Barinholtz’s political satire The Oath is, above all, a provocation

By Ben Sachs | 10.18.18
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The long death of Jean Lalime
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Pub Royale becomes a pizzeria during off hours

The chefs of the Ukrainian Village barstaurant trade Indian for Italian for staff meal.

By Tal Rosenberg | 10.13.16
Arts & Culture

Wishful History

Mother Jones founder Adam Hochschild wants very badly for the legacy of the abolitionists to belong to the left.

By Noah Berlatsky | 02.17.05

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