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On Politics
Back to the petri dish
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With threats of termination, Mayor Lightfoot and Janice Jackson welcome teachers back to the classroom.
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The Aces helped invent the sound of electric Chicago blues
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Twenty-four points of view on the band Joan of Arc
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Tim Kinsella lets everyone else tell the story of his longest-running group—entirely in keeping with their music’s embrace of illogic and reinvention.
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On Transportation
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We should rename Chicago’s shoreline highway DuSable Drive, but we don’t have to drop LSD
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Current and former students, staff, and faculty at the top-ranked art school describe microaggressions, discrimination, and a failed anti-racism campaign.
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