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Feature
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He says he helped launch Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, and the Jackson 5. But after 40 years as a music promoter and dj, Pervis Spann is still Chicago's biggest small-timer.
- by David Whiteis
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Our Town
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Wayne F. Miller's postwar portraits captured the joys and sorrows of the Black Belt. Now Chicago can finally see them.
- by Cara Jepsen
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Miscellany
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An Evanston-bred author never achieved the renown of his alter ego, Auntie Mame.
- by Albert Williams
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Tags: Miscellany, Feature
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Miscellany
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The huge undervote in Cook County makes Florida look like a model of deomcracy, but why change the system? Pate Philip and friends like things just the way they are.
- by Ben Joravsky
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Tags: Miscellany, Politics
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Culture Club
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With multiplexes folding on all sides, Century Theatres boss Raymond Syufy has a revolutionary idea to fill seats: good movies.
- by Patrick Z. McGavin