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

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

By Anya Davidson
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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
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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

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A note from the editor

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

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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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