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Music
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The Secret History of Chicago Music
Aug 14, 2018
Video
Folksinger Kristin Lems has been a favorite of the women’s movement—and of Dr. Demento
Evanston native Kristin Lems has shared stages with John Prine and Gloria Steinem, and she's currently working on a play with songs about Jane Addams.
By Steve Krakow
Tags:
The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Kristin Lems
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Evanston
,
Champaign-Urbana
,
feminist
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ERA
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women's movement
,
folk
,
Women Walk More Determined
,
Mammary Glands
,
Dr. Demento
,
Tim Vear
,
Lynn Keller
,
Cherry Wolfarth
,
Oh Mama!
,
In the Out Door
,
Carolsdatter Productions
,
We Will Never Give Up
,
Jane Addams
,
John Prine
,
Dan Fogelberg
,
Gil Scott-Heron
,
Betty Ford
,
Lady Bird Johnson
,
Gloria Steinem
,
You Me and All of the Above
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 18, 2017
Video
Investigation: Emanuel's Chicago Infrastructure Trust has cost taxpayers $5 million but has contributed little, and other news
Also, local and national progressive Democrats target Congressman Dan Lipinski.
By Kate Shepherd
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News
,
Did You Read __________?
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Chicago
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Illinois
,
Rahm Emanuel
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Chicago Infrastructure Trust
,
Dan Lipinski
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abortion issues
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Election 2018
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Democratic Party
,
Congress
,
Kirsten Gillibrand
,
Gloria Steinem
,
Jeff Sessions
,
Department of Justice
,
Chicago Public Schools
,
Forrest Claypool
,
Janice Jackson
,
Clarence Darrow
,
Chicago history
,
Jackson Park
,
Chicago Department of Transportation
,
McDonald's
,
Video
Blogs
,
Bleader
Sep 7, 2016
Police chief: Poverty, ‘society issues,’ not CPD, are causing the gun violence surge, and other Chicago news
Also, how meeting Mother Teresa changed a ex-gang leader's life.
By Kate Shepherd
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News
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Did You Read __________?
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Eddie Johnson
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Chicago Police Department
,
gun violence
,
gang violence
,
Chicago Public Schools
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Chicago Teachers Union
,
Mother Teresa
,
Catholic Church
,
Bruce Rauner
,
Donald Trump
,
Election 2016
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Chicago Humanities Festival
,
Gloria Steinem
,
Trevor Noah
,
The Daily Show
,
Senator Barbara Boxer
,
Thomas Friedman
,
Maureen Dowd
,
Jon Meacham
,
General George Armstrong Custer
Blogs
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Bleader
Jun 15, 2016
Speed will be the theme of this year's fall Chicago Humanities Festival
The fastest Humanities Fest yet!
By Aimee Levitt
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Do This
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Things I Love
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Chicago Humanities Festival
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Chicago Humanities Festival 2016
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Gloria Steinem
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Thomas Friedman
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Alison Cuddy
,
Marshall Brown
,
Trevor Noah
,
Yaa Gyasi
Arts & Culture
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Book Review
Nov 13, 2015
Recommended
Traveling and listening with Gloria Steinem in
My Life on the Road
With her new memoir, the 81-year-old feminist, journalist, and activist shows the power of hearing others.
By Aimee Levitt
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Gloria Steinem
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My Life on the Road
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Gandhi
,
Dorothy Pitman Hughes
,
Recommended
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Fall Preview
Sep 9, 2015
Gloria Steinem talks to Roxane Gay about her new memoir,
My Life on the Road
By Janet Potter
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Fall Arts
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Fall Preview 2015
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Gloria Steinem
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My Life on the Road
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Roxane Gay
Blogs
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Bleader
Apr 6, 2015
Weekend shootings and recent homicide stats give Garcia an issue to exploit
Garcia continues Chicago's political tradition of blaming the city's crime rate on the incumbent.
By Steve Bogira
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Politics
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News
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Jesus "Chuy" Garcia
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Rahm Emanuel
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Chicago mayoral runoff
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Maxine Waters
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Ms. magazine
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Chicago Police Department
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Chicago Crime Commission
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Richard M. Daley
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Harold Washington
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Thomas Hynes
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Jane Byrne
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Bleader
Feb 20, 2013
Reader's
Agenda Wed 2/20:
Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines
, Vacation Dad, and
From Jail to Yale
What's on the
Reader's
Agenda for Wednesday, February 20, 2013.
By Drew Hunt
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Feminism Flatlined: The New Girl Series
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Wonder Women: the Untold Story of American Superheroines
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Gloria Steinem
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Kathleen Hanna
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Bikini Kill
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Le Tigre
,
Andrew Todryk
,
Vacation Dad
,
Burlington
,
Leor Galil
,
Bones
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Hunter Husar
,
From Jail to Yale: Serving Time on Stage
,
University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 1, 2012
Underemployed
recap: sex and the committee
Bro code lies at the center of an episode of
Underemployed
that suggests it's women hold each other back in the work place. MTV! It's post-feminist.
By Asher Klein
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Arts
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Television
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Underemployed
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bros
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bro code
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homoeroticism
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nipples
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MTV
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feminism
,
Gloria Steinem
,
advertising
News & Politics
,
Media
Mar 25, 2010
Venus's Next Wave
The feminist magazine's new owner hopes to raise it to new heights by rejecting its past.
By Michael Miner
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Amy Schroeder
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Venus Magazine
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Kathleen Hanna
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Anne Brindle
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Marci Sepulveda
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Columbia College
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Sarah Beardsley
,
MCI
,
Jill Russell
,
Martha Stewart
,
Body + Soul
News & Politics
,
Miscellany
Sep 24, 1992
Revolution Girl-Style Now!
Notes From the Teenage Feminist Rock 'n' Roll Underground
By Emily White
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Miscellany
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FeatureRIO Girl
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Nikki McClure
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Riot Girl Olympia
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Olympia, Washington
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Bikini Kill
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Hole
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Babes in Toyland
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Calamity Jane
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Jigsaw
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Sister Nobody
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Chainsaw, Girl Germs
,
Riot Girl manifesto
,
Riot Girl Olympia
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Candice Pedersen
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Calvin Johnson
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K Records
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Sub Pop
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International Pop Underground
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Heavens to Betsy
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Allison Wolfe
,
Molly Neuman
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mosh pits
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Barbara Kruger
,
Tobi Vail
,
Kathleen Hanna
,
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,
femininity
,
contradictions
,
patriarchy
,
Washington, D.C.
,
Ian MacKaye
,
Fugazi
,
Nirvana
,
Kurt Cobain
,
Rolling Stone
,
Gloria Steinem
,
Sonic Youth
,
Kim Gordon
,
Jean Smith
,
Mecca Normal
,
David Lester
,
Bratmobile
,
girlcore zines
,
homocore zines
,
zines
,
Kristy McNichol
,
G.B. Jones
,
Donna Dresch
,
Carol Gilligan
,
Kat Bjelland
News & Politics
,
Media
Sep 29, 1972
"What kind of paper is this, anyway?"
Questions we've heard over and over in the last year.
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Media
,
The Chicago Free Press
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Ms.
,
Gloria Steinem
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Saturday Evening Post
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New York Times
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,
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,
Chicago Reader
,
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,
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,
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,
Kathy Gilles
,
Jane Lantz
,
Katie Kane
,
Tom Wolfe
,
future of newspapers
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Steve Metalitz
,
American Friends Service Committee
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Transition radio
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Gerry Ketelaar
,
Ken Love
,
Hyde Park
,
Beth Lester
,
Leo Burnett
,
Myron Meisel
,
University of Chicago
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,
J. Leland
,
Citizen Kane
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,
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,
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Chicago Tribune
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