- Issue of
- Dec 10-23, 2020
- Vol. 50, No. 6
‘An absolute caste system’
Current and former employees of Pangea, the city’s top evictor, describe racism, segregation, and a “toxic” workplace.
By Maya Dukmasova
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Food & Drink
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- Food & Drink Feature
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Full Circle Fungi makes like a mushroom and cooperates
An oyster farm spawns in a Logan Square basement.
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- Food & Drink Feature
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Build your own Chicago bar cart
The at-home bar cart starter kit that supports local businesses
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- Food & Drink Feature
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Bow before our future fungal overlords
Get your lion's mane, pioppino, and blue oysters through Windy City Mushroom's new magic mushroom window.
Arts & Culture
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- Art Feature
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Catherine Edelman Gallery closes with a 'Place in the Sun'
Landscape photographer scott b. davis treks into the wild and discovers the undiscoverable.
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- Comedy
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Code-Switched delivers universal lessons with South Asian nuance
It’s the late-20s existential crisis sitcom that all South Asian American millennials deserve.
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- Dance
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Ruth Page Center reimagines The Nutcracker for an online audience
A new recorded site-specific production meets the challenges of this COVID year.
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- Feature
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The remarkable life of Art Castillo and Moulin Jimmy’s
Tacked to the wall of a beloved Hyde Park dive, a time capsule hides in plain sight.
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- Ghost Light
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Ghost Gun confronts class and race
The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian
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- Lit Feature
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Be part of The Clique with Girls Like Us
Comedians Sophie Krueger and Frannie Comstock break down the YA book series.
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- Performing Arts Feature
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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.
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- Theater Review
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Yule be home for Christmas with Manual Cinema and Hell in a Handbag
A Dickens chestnut and a spoof of 1970s celebrity specials join the online holiday theater lineup.
Columns & Opinion
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- On Culture
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Angela Jackson is the state’s new poet laureate
That shouldn’t cost her, right?
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- On Politics
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To trust or not to trust . . .
Teachers, parents, and students have to decide if CPS can keep COVID-19 out of the classroom.
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- On Politics
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Maddog and Tunney
As usual, Democrats in Illinois find new and creative ways to undercut their own party.
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- Savage Love
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Fact-checking the casserole’s ‘secret ingredient’
Some letters you suspect are fake and some letters you hope are fake.
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- Savage Love
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Why won’t the universe let me have wet dreams?
Maybe it’s lingering shame about same-sex desires.
News & Politics
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- Feature
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Corporate culture at Chicago’s top evictor is ‘an absolute caste system’
Current and former employees of Pangea describe racism, segregation, and a "toxic" workplace.
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- Feature
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A case of disappearing hoops in gentrifying neighborhoods
In the last decade the Chicago Park District has removed 12 of 16 basketball courts from neighborhoods that have doubled and tripled in value, further marginalizing communities facing displacement.
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- News
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Librarians sound alarms about pandemic protocols
Do the CPL pandemic guidelines really help staff and patrons?
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- News
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How ancient Jewish religious law influenced the design of a bike bridge in West Rogers Park
The span includes a special portal to Chicago’s strict Orthodox community.
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- News
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The COVID-canceled sports league that still made the streets unsafe
Members of the Chicago Police Enforcers football team have been involved in more than 200 incidents where they’ve injured civilians through use of force.
City Life
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- Public Service Announcement
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Get your nuts together
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
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- Public Service Announcement
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Give it away, give it away, give it away now
Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
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- Shop Local
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Welcome to Quarantinaville
A local artist’s one-of-a-kind greeting cards support local businesses and help us stay connected.
Film
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- Movie Feature
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The warm embrace of a rom-com
How Chicago-based stories provide comfort in the middle of a pandemic
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- Movie Review
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Finding Yingying looks at the human impact of a tragic crime
Jiayan “Jenny” Shi’s documentary honors Yingying Zhang as a person, not a victim.
Music
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- Chicagoans of Note
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Adam Gogola, front man of Blind Adam & the Federal League
“When you look around your community, it's easy to help the people around you. And once you start doing that, it's easier to understand how we can effect change.”
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- Gig Poster of the Week
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Parked on a snow route on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was created by Nashville graphic designer Terri Morris.
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- Gig Poster of the Week
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Rudolph took a personal day on the gig poster of the week
This week's featured gig poster was designed by the Empty Bottle using a photo illustration by John Sturdy.
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- Gossip Wolf
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Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang livestream their traditional solstice duo
Plus: Che Arthur of Pink Avalanche drops two instrumental solo EPs, and reunited posthardcore band Cinco de Gatos finally release an album they recorded in 1995.
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- Gossip Wolf
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Rapper Matt Muse runs a second Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive
Plus: A new local compilation benefits Chicago Community Jail Support, and former youth poet laureate Kara Jackson releases a Christmas EP.
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- Music Feature
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Will Bloodshot Records stay in the saddle?
Internal strife, unpaid royalties, and the looming possibility of a sale have forced the venerable Chicago indie label to a crossroads.
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- The Listener
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Neptunian Maximalism deliver a funeral rite for the human species
This Belgian collective’s recent triple album, Éons, imagines a future Earth dominated by hyperintelligent elephants.
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- The Secret History of Chicago Music
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Multimedia artist Frank Garvey makes music with robots to satirize late capitalism
The creator of the long-running OmniCircus also recorded two brilliantly unclassifiable albums in Chicago in the late 70s.
Reader
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- Sponsored Content: Cannabis Conversations (paid sponsored content)
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Cannabis Conversations (PDF)
An exploration of cannabis and hemp topics from multiple perspectives: medical, historical, social equity, ecological, and more.
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- Sponsored Content: GTI (paid sponsored content)
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Celebrating a year of cannabis culture
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- Sponsored Content: Poetry Foundation (sponsored advertising)
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The Meal After the Harvest
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- Sponsored Content: The Foley Food and Wine Society (paid sponsored content)
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Cassie Sakai & Adam Sweders
Sommelier Series