National Expungement Works: Emancipating justice-impacted communities that have been exploited by systemic inequities
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Welcome to the new chicagoreader.com
Migrating to WordPress and modernizing the site is part of the Reader’s grand plan to keep being free and freaky for another 50 years. We couldn’t do it without you, and I want to thank everyone who’s supported us during our transition to nonprofit and our ongoing struggle—like everyone else—to successfully weather the upheavals of the last 18 months.
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How to avoid your second-cousin ex at the family reunion
Q: I fell in love with my second cousin about four years ago at a family reunion. (I hadn’t laid eyes on him since I was a kid!) I was 15 when we met, he was two years older, and we were in a long-distance relationship for three years. We ended things a year ago […]
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That coddlin’ town . . .
Daley, Burke, and Rahm have been too generous to Trump and his tower, and taxpayers are paying the price.
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A note on this week’s cover story
Journalists have historically amplified the state’s bizarre stories about Allen—it feels like high time to take stock of his stories about the state.
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With the Thompson Center on the block, CAC celebrates its late creator
“Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture” at CAC offers big pictures and tiny buildings.
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My boyfriend had sex with my parents
If you can’t look at your mom without thinking about her sitting on your boyfriend’s face, you might not be able to get past this.
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A mayor and her narrative
As her interview with the New York Times reveals, Mayor Lightfoot’s got her story and she’s sticking with it.
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The Obama Center and the fight to preserve Jackson Park
Advocates say an alternate site in Washington Park is less disruptive and more beneficial to the community and the environment.
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Can you get genital crab infestations from a massage?
What to do when you suspect your husband is exchanging flirty texts and photos with another man
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A note on this week’s cover story
A charismatic person somehow emanates levity, intimacy, and self-assuredness, all at once. Charisma is talked about like it’s an inborn quality—but I think it’s something that’s summoned. My story this week is born, in part, from a desire to understand what charismatic people are like when they’re not being watched—and who gets hurt when image […]
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Fact-checking the hot tub hookup
A letter with too many “unwilling cuckold fantasy” tropes
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North Lawndale Employment Network: Creating innovative employment initiatives for the Black communities on Chicago’s west side
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Groundhog Day in federal court for the Obama Center
Protect Our Parks wants to put the brakes on the Obama Center groundbreaking.