Switch to the
mobile version
of this page.
Latest issue
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
RSS
The Daily Reader, Early Warnings, and Food & Drink e-mails
Mobile
Username
View Profile
Edit Profile
Log Out
Log in
Create Account
The Chicago Reader
City Life
News & Politics
Columns
Music
Arts & Culture
Film
Food & Drink
Events
Ads
Browse
How to place classified ads
Browse News & Politics
Features
Maya Dukmasova
Cannabis
The Ben Joravsky Show podcast
Browse Music
Features
Chicagoans of Note
Gossip Wolf
The Listener
Secret History of Chicago Music
Music Reviews
Best Chicago albums of the 2010s
Early Warnings
Full music listings
Streaming events
Browse Film
Features
Movie reviews
Index of older long reviews
Small screen
Film archive: short reviews
This week’s movies of note
Movies of note: new reviews
Featured movie theaters
Browse Arts & Culture
Features
Recommended
Theater reviews
Art reviews
Ghost Light (news & notes)
The Books Issue
Theater & Performance listings
Dance listings
Art listings
Improv/Sketch listings
Streaming events
Browse Food & Drink
Features
Mike Sula
Recommended
Reviews
Cannabis
Food & Drink events
Browse City Life
Community
Public Service Announcement
Shop Local
Sightseeing
Street View
Browse Columns
John Greenfield: On Transportation
Deanna Isaacs: On Culture
Ben Joravsky: On Politics
The Ben Joravsky Show podcast
Dan Savage: Savage Love
Opinion
Browse Ads
Classifieds
Matches
How to advertise
Display advertising information
Classified advertising information
Submit a free Matches ad
Browse Events
Streaming events
Full event listings
Reader events
Recommended today
Recommended this weekend
This week’s movies of note
Early Warnings (Music)
Full music listings
Theater & Performance listings
Dance listings
Improv/Sketch listings
Art listings
Lit & Lectures listings
Food & Drink events
Cannabis events
Parties
Other stuff
Chicago Reader Book Club
Giveaways (including free event tickets)
TixReader: Buy tickets
Chicago Reader Book Club
Streaming events
Early Warnings
Articles
Issues
Find a paper
Giveaways
Reader Store
Donate
Feature Slideshow (Home)
Do it for RBG
4
It’s time for Democrats to finally fight back against Trump and McConnell.
By Ben Joravsky
Top Stories (Home)
News & Politics
Apologies to Ophelia
The daughter I'll never have
By Mads Horwath
Music
Video
Underground producer Steve Summers drops a 12-inch of sinister acid techno
Underground producer Steve Summers drops a 12-inch of sinister acid techno, Chicago rap crew Gold Standard Collective keep the faith on a new compilation, and more.
By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
Arts & Culture
“Anthem” addresses the past and present of voter suppression
The virtual exhibit reached beyond Chicago to battleground states in the upcoming election.
By Katie Powers
We’re winners!
By John Dunlevy
|
03.35 PM
No sex worker can read minds
By Dan Savage
|
02.30 PM
Listen to
The Ben Joravsky Show
By Ben Joravsky
|
01.00 PM
27
The Devil All the Time
needs more Robert Pattinson
By Cody Corrall
|
12.50 PM
Chicago Reader
hires first-ever social justice reporting fellow
By
Reader
staff
|
12.35 PM
More »
In the latest issue
The Housing Issue
Isaacs | Culture
A book looks beyond skyscrapers to a neglected bounty of single family houses.
Dukmasova | Witness
Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.
Landlords
A new database matches rental properties with owners, whether they like it or not.
Photography
The Folded Map Project shows a segregated city.
Index of this issue »
Find a print copy »
Download issue
(PDF)
Visit Our Archives »
Best of Chicago
Best of Chicago 2019
Best neighborhood bar
Best blues band
Best hip-hop producer
Best soccer bar
Best new novel by a Chicagoan
Best soup
Videos
Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint.
Chicago Pop Stars, Hardcore Heroes, and House Legends
Book Launch Party, July 16, 2020
Listen to
The Ben Joravsky Show
More Videos »
From the Archive
News & Politics
Fighting the Power
Cops Against Kids Outside the Aragon: What Happened?
By Bill Wyman
|
01.17.91
Food & Drink
Froot Loops, french fries, and stir-fry fuel BellyQ
Inside Bill Kim's Korean-barbecue-oriented Asian fusion restaurant, sugary cereal is as popular as prepared food during staff meal.
By Michael Gebert
|
10.13.16
More From the Archive »
Agenda Teaser
09.22.20
Galleries & Museums
First Name Basis: 40 Years of Portraits by Dmitry Samarov
Firecat Projects
August 21
Galleries & Museums
"Petite Mort" Opening Reception
Aspect/Ratio
September 01
More Agenda Teaser »
Popular Stories
Read
Shared
Comments
Feature
Video
That lockout you witnessed? It didn’t happen.
7
Ex-cops attempted to throw out a Rogers Park tenant at gunpoint. The police report tells a different story.
By Maya Dukmasova
|
09.17.20
Performing Arts Feature
After the shutdown, Lips is unsealed
Fire, break-ins, and COVID: the Motor Row drag palace has had a bumpy first year.
By Catey Sullivan
|
09.21.20
Movie Review
The Devil All the Time
needs more Robert Pattinson
Stellar performances get lost in the film’s prolonged rigmarole.
By Cody Corrall
|
09.22.20
Announcements
Chicago Reader
hires first-ever social justice reporting fellow
Adam M. Rhodes fills the yearlong position made possible by grant funding from the Field Foundation.
By
Reader
staff
|
09.22.20
Announcements
We’re winners!
The
Reader
brought home some AAN Awards.
By John Dunlevy
|
09.22.20
Comics Feature
Behold the magnificent pigeon
3
A comic about birds
By Sophie Lucido Johnson
|
08.27.20
Community
Ode to a Chicago Public School
The lessons learned in CPS go beyond what’s taught in the classroom.
By Nina Li Coomes
|
09.02.20
Chicagoans of Note
Video
Sandra Treviño, DJ and founder of Latin-music site Enchúfate
“I love that I can share the music that I love, and that once people hear it they're gonna love it too.”
By Leor Galil
|
09.16.20
Feature
The Folded Map Project
shows a segregated city
2
Tonika Johnson’s multimedia project expands with a new film.
By S. Nicole Lane
|
09.15.20
Bleader
Potheads rejoice: Illinois lawmakers move to legalize recreational weed
199
The proposed law would make it legal for adults to possess, purchase, and grow weed and would regulate and tax the drug statewide.
By Lee V. Gaines
|
03.22.17
Essay
I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, but I don’t vote with my vagina
42
I vote with a brain that understands what having a vagina means.
By Julia Weiss
|
07.14.16
Our Town
Urban Legends/ Who Saw Homey the Clown?
36
How rumors of a man in a van struck terror into the hearts of schoolchildren all over Chicago.
By Isaiah Thompson
|
10.26.06
Movie Review
Recommended
Marriage Story
doesn't pick sides
34
Noah Baumbach's latest film about divorce shows both parents not as enemies but as humans.
By Marissa De La Cerda
|
11.20.19
On Politics
Unwelcome news
27
The unfairness in Chicago’s TIF program continues.
By Ben Joravsky
|
08.11.20
Best of Chicago 2019
About the
Chicago Reader
Reader
Staff
Reader
Careers
Freelancing Info
Contact Us
Advertising information
Distribution Locations Map
Reader
Subscriptions/Back Issues
Reprints
Giveaways and promotions
Upcoming
Reader
events
TixReader: Buy event tickets
Reader Store
Support the
Reader
: Become a member or make donation
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2020 Chicago Reader
Powered by
Foundation