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Home » Arts & Culture » Valentine's Day

Category: Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day

by Chicago Reader February 13, 2020August 18, 2021
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We found love in a Matches place

by Chicago Reader February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

Two love stories that started on the pages of the Reader

Posted inArts & Culture

Gown girl

by Kaylen Ralph February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

How do you cut the cord when you’re surrounded by couples tying the knot?

Posted inArts & Culture

Beyond the heartbreak hotel

by Salem Collo-Julin February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

Four places where relationships sunk

Posted inCity Life

#BreakupRituals

by Reader staff and Twitter contributors February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

How do you mend a broken heart? Twitter has some answers.

Posted inArts & Culture

Drown your sorrows

by Rima Parikh February 11, 2020August 18, 2021

A Valentine’s Day bar guide based on relationship status

Posted inArts & Culture

Be mine, Valentine

by Megan Kirby February 11, 2020August 18, 2021

Single people can celebrate February 14, too!

Posted inArts & Culture

Taking heartbreak seriously

by Maya Dukmasova February 11, 2020August 18, 2021

A journalist turns her breakup into art and politics with a breakup zine.

Posted inArts & Culture

Our top 12 picks for celebrating (or ignoring) Valentine’s Day in Chicago

by Chicago Reader February 10, 2015August 18, 2021

From dinners to parties to a horror convention, we’ve got you covered.

Kabocha will offer a six-course prix fixe featuring alleged aphrodisiacs.
Posted inArts & Culture

Things to do on Valentine’s Day that aren’t awful

by Chicago Reader February 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Valentine’s Day dining and events

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A sampling of our favorite #leastromantic tweets

by Chicago Reader February 7, 2013August 18, 2021

@Chicago_Reader readers tweeted in with their #leastromantic tales of woe

Dinner for two
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Valentine’s Day Guide 2013

by Chicago Reader February 7, 2013August 18, 2021

Our picks for the best places to be on the most romantic day of the year

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Futilely Looking For Love in Grand Rapids

by Bianca Sarah Bova February 7, 2013August 18, 2021

“He looked at me the way you look at an animal you’ve read about and seen pictures of but have never actually encountered in real life.”

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Thrown Into the Abyss

by Elyse Doll February 7, 2013August 18, 2021

The voicemail went something like this: “I have never been as close to anyone else as I was to you, and that’s why this hurts so much more. … You are just evil. Thanks.”

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Romance is for suckers

by Kevin Warwick February 7, 2013August 18, 2021

The Reader‘s (almost) romance-free ode to Valentine’s Day

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