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Arts & Culture
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Lit Feature
Dec 18, 2020
The ten best Chicago books of 2020
Add these stories rooted in the city to your reading list.
By Adam Morgan
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Year in Review 2020
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Everywhere You Don't Belong
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Gabriel Bump
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The Beauty of Your Face
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Sahar Mustafah
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Finna
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Nate Marshall
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Too Much Midnight
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Krista Franklin
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The Most Beautiful Thing
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Arshay Cooper
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The Heart of a Woman
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Florence B. Price
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Rae Linda Brown
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Stateway's Garden
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Jasmon Drain
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
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Michael Zapata
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Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Student's Search for Community at Historically White Universities
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Micere Keels
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Sun Ra's Chicago: Atrofuturism and the City
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William Sites
Film
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Movie Feature
Dec 22, 2020
Relive the year in film with these double features
Some of the best films of the year meet their matches.
By Becca James
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The Assistant
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Sound of Metal
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Gretel & Hansel
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Shirley
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Come to Daddy
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Blow the Man Down
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The Lodge
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Vivarium
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Straight Up
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Buffaloed
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Spree
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Freaky
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The Half of It
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Castle in the Ground
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A Good Woman is Hard to Find
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I'm Your Woman
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Becky
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Alone
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Possessor
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Black Bear
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Year in Review 2020
Music
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Music Feature
Dec 21, 2020
The best overlooked Chicago records of 2020
We’ve all had a lot to pay attention to this year, but there’s always room for more great music.
By Leor Galil
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Best of 2020
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Year in Review
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Year in Review 2020
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overlooked
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Rob Mitchum
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Jeff Parker
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Suite for Max Brown
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Ozzuario
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Existence Is Pain
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Miranda Reinert
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Wendy House Press
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Buggin
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Buggin Out
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Bryanna Bennett
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Casper McFadden
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Audio Diary
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Harvey Waters
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Air Sits Heavy
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Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi
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Fuubutsushi
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Matthew Sage
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Chris Jusell
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Chaz Prymek
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Patrick Shiroishi
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Tree
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Free Credit
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MFn Melo
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Brittney Carter
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Solo the Dweeb
City Life
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Feature
Dec 22, 2020
Changemakers of 2020—and beyond
Whether through organizing, the arts, or social media, these individuals took the year by the horns and made their mark on Chicago—and the world.
By Gretchen Sterba
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Eva Maria Lewis
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Free Root Operation
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Laundi Keepseagle
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Save Money, Save Life
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Nash Alam
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Grassroots Collaborative
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Ric Wilson
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Rivka Yeker
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Morgan Martinez
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Hooligan Magazine
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Maria Khwaja
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Trina Reynolds-Tyler
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Pidgeon Pagonis
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Intersex Justice Project
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Damon Williams
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Jennifer Pagán
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Let Us Breathe Collective
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Year in Review 2020
City Life
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Feature
Dec 22, 2020
My year of hiking
When the pandemic hit, I ran to the woods.
By S. Nicole Lane
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Palos Park Woods
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Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
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Devil’s Lake
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Wisconsin
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Nordhouse Dunes
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Michigan
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Manistee River
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Chicago’s Outerbelt Loop
Music
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Music Feature
Dec 21, 2020
Chicago’s independent musicians stepped up their activism in 2020
With concerts and tours on hold for most of the year, the city’s music scene doubled down on mutual aid and fundraising for community groups.
By Jack Riedy
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COVID-19
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Black Lives Matter
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Matt Muse
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People’s Grab-N-Go
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Femdot
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Delacreme Scholars
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Femi Adigun
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the Scholars Slide By
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Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive
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Feed the West Side
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John Walt Foundation
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Nachelle Pugh
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Pivot Gang
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Frsh Waters
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Qurissy Lopez
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Bandcamp Friday
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Nnamdï Ogbonnaya
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Nnamdï
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Brat
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Krazy Karl
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Black Plight
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Assata’s Daughters
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EAT Chicago
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Chicago Community Bond Fund
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Illinois Prison Project
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Brave Space Alliance
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Macie Stewart
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Sima Cunningham
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Ohmme
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KC Tenants
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Chicago Community Jail Support
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Montessori School of Englewood
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Kooyrigs
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Warm Violet
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Avery Springer
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Art Is Love Vol. 1
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Why? Records
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Ruby Watson
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Sen Morimoto
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Tasha
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Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project
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CIVLization
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CIVL SAVE Emergency Relief Fund
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Situationchicago
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Experimental Sound Studio
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Quarantine Concerts
News & Politics
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Feature
Dec 21, 2020
A year like no other
On the violence, sadness, and hope of 2020
By Maya Dukmasova, Karen Hawkins, Adam M. Rhodes, Brianna Wellen, Salem Collo-Julin, Leor Galil, Taryn Allen, and Sujay Kumar
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anti-trans violence
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police
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lori lightfoot
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death
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election 2020
Arts & Culture
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Ghost Light
Dec 31, 2020
Looking back in gratitude
In the pandemic, performing artists took care of each other. We should take better care of them.
By Kerry Reid
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Ghost Light
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Chicago Artists Relief Fund
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For the People Artists Collective
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Chicago Theatre Workers Relief Fund
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Season of Concern
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Dancers' Fund
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Arts for Illinois Relief Fund
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The Actors Fund
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Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
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Titus Burgess
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André De Shields
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Brav
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Year in Review 2020
Arts & Culture
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Performing Arts Feature
Dec 18, 2020
The onstage season was short, but there was plenty of drama in 2020
Getting back to normal isn't going to happen. And in many ways, it shouldn't.
By Kerry Reid
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Year in Review 2020
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2020 Theater
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Theater Wit
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Teenage Dick
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Mike Lew
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Brian Balcom
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MacGregor Arney
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We See You W.A.T.
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Miranda Gonzalez
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UrbanTheater Company
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Donterrio Johnson
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David Zak
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Pride Films and Plays
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Victory Gardens
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Erica Daniels
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Chay Yew
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Flea Theater
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Second
Arts & Culture
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Dance
Dec 18, 2020
Dance in 2020 explored boundaries away from the stage
In a year of loss, artists found momentum and took care.
By Irene Hsiao
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Dance
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Year in Review 2020
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Jane Jerardi
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Bril Barrett
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M.A.D.D. Rhythms
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
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Ayako Kato
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Spence Warren
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Nora Sharp
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Links Hall
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Dance Center of Columbia College
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Kristina Fluty
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Giau Minh Truong
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Jacob Snodgrass
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Experimental Sound Studio
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Win
Arts & Culture
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Feature
Dec 22, 2020
The year of TikTok
How local creatives made the most of the social media platform in 2020
By Brianna Wellen
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TikTok
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comedy
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burlesque
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drag
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Alex Collyard
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Elizabeth Gomez
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Derry Queen
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Iridessence
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social media
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Year in Review 2020
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink Feature
Dec 18, 2020
The year in pivots
Chicago restaurants ate shit this year. A lot of shit was still pretty great.
By Mike Sula
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Year in Review 2020
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the Powerhouse
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Julia Gham
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Lao Peng You
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Little Madrid
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O16
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Chicago Ramen
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Dining at a Distance
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Erick Williams
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Virtue
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Reader Recipes: Chicago Cooks and Drinks at Home
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Jasmine Sheth
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Tasting India
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Ethan Lim
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Hermosa
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Yuta Katsuyama
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Snack Collective
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Eve Studnicka
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Dinner at the Grotto
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Alexis Thomas
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Black Cat Kitchen
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Shin Thompson
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Bokuchan
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Furious Spoon
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John Avila
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Minahasa
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Kedai Tepao
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The Wurst
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Vera Videnovich
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Rachel Kimura
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Atichat Srisawangpan
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Inon Srisawangpan
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In-On Thai
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Dinkey DaDiva
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Rafael Esparza
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Mitchell AbouJamra
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Evette’s
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Passerotto
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Jennifer Kim
Music
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Music Feature
Dec 22, 2020
Showcasing gig posters in a year short on gigs
The
Reader
got creative to find ways to keep uplifting Chicago artists in 2020.
By Salem Collo-Julin
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Eric J. Garcia
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Casa Aztlán
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Andrea Hill Fitzgerald
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Prince
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Avalon Regal
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Heather Anderson
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CocoRosie
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Empty Bottle
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Tesh Silver
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George Floyd
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DJ Screw
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Dave “Medusa” Shelton
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John Vernon Forbes
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