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- Music, Music Feature Aug 20, 2020
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Give your money to Mary Lane
The 84-year-old Chicago blueswoman should be a legend. She can barely pay her bills.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 16, 2020
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The Blackivists on documenting movements
A group of Black archivists is helping communities create their own narratives, filling in what history books have left out.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 10, 2019
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Rapbrarian Roy Kinsey finds his voice in queer hip-hop
With his next album, he wants to make the music he wishes he’d heard as a young man.
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 24, 2019
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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.
- News & Politics, Worst of Chicago Dec 21, 2017
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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.
- Food & Drink, Fall Preview Sep 13, 2017
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The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is an historical treat
A new reference guide is a fun (and mouth-watering) way to learn about the city.
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 22, 2017
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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.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 31, 2016
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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.
- Arts & Culture, Book Review Mar 23, 2016
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2015
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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?
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2014
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2014
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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.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review May 12, 2014
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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.
- Arts & Culture, Feature May 23, 2013
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StoryCorps puts Chicago behind the microphone
The national recording project, started in 2003, has opened a booth in the Cultural Center.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2013
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 4, 2011
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Back where the Defender began
The Chicago Defender returns to its roots as a society paper
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 26, 2010
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Climate Change
Chicago winters provided a ready-made scare tactic to southern employers hoping to staunch black emigration
