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News & Politics
,
Feature
Jan 24, 2019
Is Chicago’s legacy of segregation causing a reverse Great Migration?
Black Chicagoans are leaving the city, and an unexamined history of racial discrimination may be to blame.
By Pete Saunders
Tags:
Feature
,
Great Migration
,
African-Americans
,
Chicago segregation
,
segregation
News & Politics
,
Worst of Chicago
Dec 21, 2017
Mount Greenwood is Chicago's Upside Down
No demogorgon roams this netherworld, but a majority of its electorate did back the man who's been called the swamp monster: President Donald Trump.
By Jake Malooley
Tags:
Worst of Chicago
,
Mount Greenwood
,
Isabel Wilkerson
,
Great Migration
,
New York Times
,
Chicago Police Department
,
Joshua Beal
,
worst neighborhood
Food & Drink
,
Fall Preview
Sep 13, 2017
The Chicago Food Encyclopedia
is an historical treat
A new reference guide is a fun (and mouth-watering) way to learn about the city.
By Aimee Levitt
Tags:
Fall Preview
,
The Chicago Food Encyclopedia
,
Bruce Kraig
,
Colleen Taylor Sen
,
Street Food: Everything You Need to Know About Open-Air Stands Carts and Food Trucks Across the Globe
,
University of Illinois Press
,
Heartland Foodways
,
Oxford Encyclopedia of Food
,
Carol Mighton Haddix
,
Mike Sula
,
Jeppson's Malort
,
Julia Child Foundation
,
Les Dames Escoffier Chicago
,
meat-packing industry
,
railroad
,
Mickey Finn
,
Great Migration
,
Ann Sather cinnamon rolls
,
deep-dish pizza
,
shrimp de jonghe
,
chicken Vesuvio
,
Grant Achatz
,
zebra mussels
Best of Chicago
,
Reasons to love Chicago
Jun 22, 2017
A block in Oakland is an oasis, and a tale of segregation
The 4100 block of South Berkeley Avenue might be beautiful, but it has a troubled history.
By Maya Dukmasova
Tags:
Reasons to love Chicago
,
Oakland south-side neighborhood
,
4100 South Berkeley
,
Berkeley Avenue
,
Cicero Hine
,
Great Migration
,
Milton Mizenburg Jr.
,
Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art
,
Lloyd King
,
Section 8
Music
,
Music Feature
Aug 31, 2016
The
Reader
’s comprehensive guide to the 2016 Chicago Jazz Festival
This year’s lineup captures the music’s proliferating diversity, with the Bad Plus, Anat Cohen, Erwin Helfer, Tarbaby, JD Allen, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and much more.
By Peter Margasak
Tags:
Music Feature
,
Chicago Jazz Festival
,
Jazz Festival
,
Millennium Park
,
Cultural Center
,
Von Freeman Pavilion
,
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
,
Jazz and Heritage Pavilion
,
Young Jazz Lions Stage
,
Orbert Davis
,
Soul Migration
,
Great Migration
,
Carla Bley
,
Charlie Haden
,
Liberation Music Orchestra
,
Bad Plus
,
Ornette Coleman
,
Science Fiction
,
Candido Camero
,
Charles Rumback
,
Erwin Helfer
,
George Fludas
,
Barry Altschul
,
3Dom Factor
,
John Scofield
,
Joe Lovano
,
Michael Zerang
,
Blue Lights
,
Anat Cohen
,
Eric Alexander
,
Harold Mabern
,
Cameron Pfiffner
,
Adolphe’s Ax
,
Brian Carpenter
,
Ghost Train Orchestra
,
Greg Rockingham
,
JD Allen
,
Nate Lepine
,
Tarbaby
,
Oliver Lake
,
Benny Golson
Arts & Culture
,
Book Review
Mar 23, 2016
Recommended
For Natalie Y. Moore, south-side Chicago isn't a headline—it's home
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
grounds political reporting in personal experience.
By Sam Worley
Tags:
Book Review
,
Natalie Y. Moore
,
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
,
south side
,
south-side Chicago
,
WBEZ
,
Chatham
,
Bronzeville
,
segregation
,
separate unequal and ignored
,
Chiraq
,
Great Migration
,
Recommended
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 2, 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns
vs.
Chicago: City on the Make
: Greatest Chicago Book tournament, final four
Which of these two titles will advance to the final round?
By Tal Rosenberg
Tags:
Greatest Chicago Book
,
Books
,
Arts
,
Warmth of Other Suns
,
Chicago: City on the Make
,
Isabel Wilkerson
,
Nelson Algren
,
Ida Mae Gladney
,
Robert Pershing Foster
,
Mara Shalhoup
,
Jake Austen
,
Studs Terkel
,
creative nonfiction
,
prose poem
,
great migration
,
segregation
,
racism
Blogs
,
Bleader
Dec 1, 2014
Native Son
vs.
The Warmth of Other Suns
: Greatest Chicago Book round one
Two books that consider the effects of the Great Migration face off in the second bout of the first round of our contest.
By Lance Williams
Tags:
Greatest Chicago Book
,
Books
,
Arts
,
Native Son
,
Richard Wright
,
Warmth of Other Suns
,
Isabel Wilkerson
,
Bigger Thomas
,
Ida Mae Gladney
,
Great Migration
Blogs
,
Bleader
Oct 20, 2014
Video
Foo Fighters take a trek through Chicago's musical history on HBO's
Sonic Highways
, with mixed results
The alternative-rock titans come to Chicago in the first episode of their HBO series, named after their forthcoming record.
By Leor Galil
Tags:
Arts
,
Television
,
Music
,
Small Screen
,
Foo Fighters
,
Sonic Highways
,
Dave Grohl
,
Something From Nothing
,
Cheap Trick
,
Steve Albini
,
Electrical Audio
,
In Utero
,
Nirvana
,
Nate Mendel
,
Sunny Day Real Estate
,
HBO
,
Wax Trax
,
Rick Nielsen
,
Tracey Bradford
,
Cubby Bear
,
Naked Raygun
,
Muddy Waters
,
blues
,
Great Migration
,
Kanye West
,
Gene Krupa
,
Etta James
,
Video
Arts & Culture
,
Art Review
May 12, 2014
Recommended
Two artists revive the ghosts of the civil rights movement through the power of cinema
In a new MCA installation, Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young re-create the quieter moments of history.
By Aimee Levitt
Tags:
Art Review
,
MCA Screen: Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young
,
Museum of Contemporary Art
,
Leslie Hewitt
,
Bradford Young
,
Naomi Beckwith
,
civil rights movement\Menil Collection
,
PBS
,
Third Cinema
,
Untitled (Structures)
,
Great Migration
,
Rosenwald Apartments
,
Bronzeville
,
Ebony
,
Jet
,
Columbia College
,
Life
,
New York Times
,
Recommended
Arts & Culture
,
Feature
May 23, 2013
StoryCorps puts Chicago behind the microphone
The national recording project, started in 2003, has opened a booth in the Cultural Center.
By Janet Potter
Tags:
Feature
,
StoryCorps
,
NPR
,
National Public Radio
,
radio
,
Library of Congress
,
American Folklife Center
,
Ritesh Parekh
,
Tina Shah
,
documentation
,
Mariana Motherway
,
Michael Motherway
,
adoption
,
race
,
recording
,
Shirley Alfaro
,
conversation
,
dialogue
,
WBEZ
,
Chicago Public Radio
,
Griot Initiative
,
Historias
,
Military Voices Initiative
,
Chicago Public Library
,
CPL
,
One Book One Chicago
,
Great Migration
,
audio recording
,
stories
,
oral history
,
Chicago Cultural Center
Blogs
,
Bleader
Mar 11, 2013
One Book, One Chicago will be talking
The Warmth of Other Suns
for a full year
The Chicago Public Library announces its latest selection: You'll be reading Isabel Wilkerson's book for the next year.
By Aimee Levitt
Tags:
Books
,
Arts
,
Chicago Public Library
,
One Book One Chicago
,
The Warmth of Other Suns
,
Great Migration
,
Isabel Wilkerson
,
Ruth Lednicer
,
Rahm Emanuel
,
StoryCorps
Blogs
,
Bleader
Nov 4, 2011
Back where the
Defender
began
The
Chicago Defender
returns to its roots as a society paper
By Michael Miner
Tags:
Media
,
News Bites
,
Chicago Defender
,
Maudlyne Ihejirika
,
Chicago Sun-Times
,
Ethan Michaeli
,
Great Migration
,
John Sengstacke Abbott
,
Lou Ransom
,
Rhonda Gillespie
,
Encyclopedia of Chicago
,
Teesee's Town
,
Theresa Fambro Hooks
,
Residents' Journal
,
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
,
St. Clair Drake
,
Horace Cayton
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jan 26, 2010
Climate Change
Chicago winters provided a ready-made scare tactic to southern employers hoping to staunch black emigration
By Cliff Doerksen
Tags:
Bad News From the Past
,
We're Old
,
Chicago Defender
,
Great Migration
,
northern industry
,
jobs
,
pneumonia
,
propaganda
,
Matthew Henson
,
Robert E. Peary
,
North Pole
,
disease
,
Darwin
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