‘Rodney Wanker didn’t exist. I’d been replaced by a rude-sounding pseudonym.’
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Reader’s Digest of Neighborhood News
1 Organic Theater offers free admission to impoverished Uptown residents The Organic Theater, thanks to a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, is giving away 144 free tickets to “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” every week, mostly to impoverished Uptown residents. Cordis Fejer says the idea was born during the Organic’s production of “The Wonderful Ice-Cream […]
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And now, from the folks who brought you the airport-in-the-lake. . .
In any other city, the press conference held last December 13 would have been the most newsworthy local event in years. Mayor Daley was announcing nothing less than “completion of The Chicago Lakefront Plan, which should serve as a protection for the lake and guide for development of lakefront recreational and cultural uses for at […]
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The Truth About Abortion Referral
If you were pregnant, alone, worried, and broke you might have the experience I did, when I answered an ad for “professional and safe abortions under $100 with most health plans.” After a longish hesitation, the woman at “Ethical Abortions” accepted my collect call. I explained that I had seen their ad in the Illini […]