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Chicago Ramen takes its place among the kings
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Capital of the midwest
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Is Chicago an island of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpensive, stultifying friendliness?
By Pete Saunders
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03.04.20
Restaurant Review
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A chef from a celebrated LA chain throws down a gauntlet in the north suburbs.
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03.03.20
Savage Love
Can a straight guy ethically accept oral sex from his gay buddy?
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Chicago postpunk gets its Wu-Tang Clan
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Local label Chicago Research has built a powerful, tight-knit collective of dark underground rock and electronic artists.
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03.03.20
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Fifty years ago, 35,000 Chicago students walked out of their classrooms in protest. They changed CPS forever.
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Among their demands: black and Latino teachers and administrators, ethnic studies classes and clubs, and bilingual education
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The romantic pull of the Soviet ideology in film.
By Ben Sachs
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Opinion
The Iowa fiasco and the Democrats’ shadowy plot to stop Bernie
34
The party is using different tools to achieve the same goal as 2016—sidelining Sanders.
By Leonard C. Goodman
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02.12.20
On Politics
Panic peddlers
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Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie.
By Ben Joravsky
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03.04.20
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The wit and wisdom of Michael Bloomberg
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