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Author Archives: Nadia Oehlsen
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Heartbreak Hotel
Development dollars are in the offing for Uptown–as long as it’s willing to tear down the decrepit Plymouth Hotel. Nevertheless, a pair of novice preservationists are making a last-ditch bid to save the historic structure.
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Blood, Sweat, and Ears
In the Trenches with the Foul-Mouthed Foot Soldiers of Agriculture
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Two Wheels Good
“Everybody makes it out to be some kind of superhuman feat, and it’s not,” says Randy Neufeld, who has ridden his bike to work all winter, even on the snowiest and coldest days. He’s the executive director of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, so it’s his job to persuade more commuters that bicycle transportation is a […]
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“He Paints With Light”
In the photo lab, Jack Leb turns a negative into a thing of beauty. In his life, as he made his way through the Middle East and across the sea to America, he sometimes had to do the same.
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Room for Argument
Subsidized housing, Uptown-style: there’s too much, there’s too little, and you don’t have to be poor to live there.
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Swept Away
The founding of Israel meant a new homeland for some and broken hearts for others. A new documentary brings home the Palestinian experience.
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Group Efforts: Salsedo Press shakes it to the left
A poster promoting one of Salsedo Press’s Cinco de Mayo blasts–which are famous in Chicago’s lefty ghettos–shows a few of the world’s best-known politicos shaking their booties on a fire escape high above Chicago’s skyline. Emiliano Zapata looks stern. But an olive-drab Daniel Ortega is getting down, and a dapper Nelson Mandela has his fists […]
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Group Efforts: people running for shelters
Jessica Baker tries to peel her three-year-old brother’s fingers from their viselike grip on the plastic handcuffs, but each little digit snaps back into place as soon as it’s removed. “Aaa! No! Aaa! No! Aaa! No!” the boy cries rhythmically as he holds on for dear life to his older brother’s toy. “Let go, Vincent,” […]
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The Halls Have Eyes
Why do the U. of C. hospitals want their nurses to wear tracking devices?
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Caught in the Machinery
For industry, temporary labor means cheap efficient production with no strings attached. For workers it means low pay, no benefits, and no future.