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Back Room Deal
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Ben and Maya look at an unpopular alderman who faces a strong challenge from a young activist, in a ward in serious need of economic development.
- by Maya Dukmasova and Ben Joravsky
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Back Room Deal
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The future site of the Obama Presidential Center and the home of the University of Chicago also encompasses parts of lower-income South Shore, which Ben and Maya think makes for a fascinating aldermanic race.
- by Maya Dukmasova and Ben Joravsky
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Back Room Deal
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Departing progressive alderman Rick Munoz faces personal trouble in advance of the election, placing successor Michael Rodriguez's race in jeopardy, in staunchly independent Little Village.
- by Maya Dukmasova and Ben Joravsky
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Back Room Deal
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Ben and Maya look at the fight between low-income housing and neighborhood amenities in rapidly changing Uptown.
- by Maya Dukmasova and Ben Joravsky
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Back Room Deal
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The race in the ward that economically drives the entire city of Chicago is totally uncontested, and Ben and Maya look at why.
- by Maya Dukmasova and Ben Joravsky
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Politics
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The mayoral hopefuls lay out a "Chicago Marshall Plan," promise a beefed-up police force, address shared public spaces—or ignore your questions, and more.
- by Reader staff
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Tags: Politics, Bill Daley, Jerry Joyce, Gary McCarthy, Susana Mendoza, Paul Vallas, Willie Wilson, Lori Lightfoot, Amara Enyia, 2019 mayoral campaign, Chicago Mayoral Election
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On Culture
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A tribute to the designer of the View-Master, the Dial-O-Matic, and the plastic garbage can—and the first black executive at Sears.
- by Deanna Isaacs
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Tags: On Culture, Charles Harrison memorial, Charles Harrison, industrial design, Sears, View-Master, African American Designers in Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Zoë Ryan, Carole Bilson, Charley Harrison, Michael Saubert, Janet Simpson, A Life’s Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Henry Glass, Robert Podall, Edward Klein, National Association of Retired Sears Employees, racism
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On Politics
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Solis swapped his loyalty to Daley and Rahm for sex, Viagra, and the council’s zoning chair.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: On Politics, Danny Solis, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Black Panthers, Ambrosio Medrano, Pilsen, TIFs, Lincoln Yards, Ed Burke, Roberto Caldero, Sun-Times, Viagra, Chicago City Council, zoning committee, UNO, United Neighborhood Organization
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Savage Love
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Dan accepts the challenge to coin a new useful term. Plus: advice for Miss Pooper's husband.
- by Dan Savage
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Movie Review
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Can the characters bridge the divides, or will they let the connections die?
- by Leah Pickett
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Tags: Movie Review, Oscar-nominated animated shorts, Oscar-nominated live-action shorts, Bao, Domee Shi, Late Afternoon, Louise Bagnall, Weekends, Trevor Jimenez, One Small Step, Andrew Chesworth, Bobby Pontillas, Animal Behaviour, Alison Snowden, David Fine, Detainment, Vincent Lambe, Fauve, Jeremy Comte, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Madre, Marguerite, Marianne Farley, Skin, Guy Nattiv
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Movie Review
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It's a 180-degree turn from the original, an outcry against the border drug wars.
- by Andrea Gronvall
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Tags: Movie Review, Miss Bala, Gerardo Naranjo, Catherine Hardwicke, Stephanie Sigman, Noé Hernández, Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Cordova, drug trafficking, Mexican cinema, Mexican-Americans, femicido
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Art Feature
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A life lived in art—literally
- by Kate Sierzputowski
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Tags: Art Feature, Sector 2337, Green Lantern, Caroline Picard, microgallery, living room gallery, apartment gallery, Threewalls, Shannon Stratton, Jonathan Rhodes, Jeff Ward, Sonia Yoon, Vonzweck, Philip von Zweck, Bill Gross, 65Grand, ArtLedge, Caleb Lyons, Brandon Alvendia, Chris Smith, Irene Pérez, Devin King, business license, PPA license, Rebecca Beachy, Green Lantern Press, Sharmyn Cruz Rivera, Shoebox Gallery, Stephen Lapthisophon
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Art Feature
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A new exhibit shows how, in the Middle Ages, all trade routes eventually led through the Sahara.
- by Lee Ann Norman
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Tags: Art Feature, Caravans of Gold Fragments in Time, Block Museum of Art, medieval Africa, medieval trade, Lisa Corrin, Kathleen Bickford Berzock, gold, salt, Mali, Silk Road, trade routes, Mansa Musa, hajj, Islam, Arabic,, Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, Sahara Desert, cultural exchange, West Africa, Sijilmasa, Catalan Atlas, Abraham Cresques, archaeology, From Sunrise to Sunset, middle ages
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Dance
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The ballet company built its Tolstoy adaptation from the ground up.
- by Irene Hsiao
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Tags: Dance, Anna Karenina, Joffrey Ballet, Ashley Wheater, Ilya Demutsky, Yuri Possokhov, Tom Pye, David Finn, André Prokovsky, Australian Ballet, David McAllister, Valeriy Pecheykin, ballet
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Lit Feature
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The current book obsessions of Northwestern prof Bill Savage and Reader culture editor Aimee Levitt
- by Aimee Levitt
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Tags: Lit Feature, book swap, Bill Savage, Aimee Levitt, Daniel Kay Hertz, Battle for Lincoln Park, Laura Adamczyk, Hardly Children, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr, Sacred Smokes, Eve L. Ewing, Luciano Vecchio, Ironheart, Brian Azzarello, Lee Bermejo, Batman Damned, American Cassandra, Peter Kurth, Dorothy Thompson, Lands of Lost Borders, Kate Harris, Silk Road
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Theater Review
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It's a perfect anti-romantic comedy, just in time for Valentine's Day.
- by Kerry Reid
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Tags: Theater Review, Arms and the Man, ShawChicago, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Scogin, Mary Michell, Callie Johnson, Barbara Zahora, Charles Stransky, Christian Gray, Lydia Berger Gray, Gary Alexander
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Music Feature
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The Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology believes engagement with the sonic environment can help build more sustainable communities—and it’s demonstrating with a soundwalk in the Chicago Pedway.
- by Kerry Cardoza
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Tags: Music Feature, Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, MSAE, Eric Leonardson, field recordings, musique concrète, environmental recordings, soundwalk, American Society for Acoustic Ecology, Experimental Sound Studio, NON:op, NON:op Open Opera Works, Hear Below, Hear Below: Listening to Chicago Underground, One Prudential Plaza, Chicago Pedway, Christopher Preissing, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Amanda Gutiérrez, Norman Long, R. Murray Schafer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Big Marsh Park, Christopher Preissing, Iannis Xenakis, Dan Godston, World Listening Project, Chicago Phonography, Todd Carter, Ed Herrmann, TV Pow, Monica Ryan, Anthony Janas, Hildegard Westerkamp, dérive, Guy Debord, Chicago Park District, Night Out in the Parks, Sean Heaney, Wild Things Conference
