Despite a move to make HIV prevention drugs free through insurers, those living with the virus fear high prices and endless red tape.
Category: News & Politics
Posted inArts & Culture
The invisible board
How are nonprofit boards dealing with crafting a vision of social justice within their organizations?
Posted inNews & Politics
Si está leyendo esto, no es muy tarde
Una breve investigación sobre la desaparición de los buzones de periódicos
Posted inNews & Politics
As pandemic restrictions ebb and flow, health care for trans people hangs in limbo
Patti Flynn thought that April 2020 would be a momentous month. She was slated to fly from Chicago to India for gender-confirmation surgery, which would finally bring her body and sense of self in line. And then came COVID-19. Flynn, like many people, faced pandemic-related impacts to her health care. But unlike most, transgender and […]
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If you’re reading this it’s not too late
A short investigation into the disappearance of news boxes
Posted inPodcasts
Listen to the new Chicago Queer & Now podcast
Two Reader staffers explore all things queer Chicago.
Posted inPodcasts
Listen to The Ben Joravsky Show
Senior writer Ben Joravsky riffs on the day’s stories with his celebrated humor, insight, and honesty, and interviews politicians, activists, journalists and other political know-it-alls. The show is available by 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays at chicagoreader.com/joravsky or on the Reader’s YouTube channel—or wherever you podcast. Don’t miss Oh, What a Week!–the Friday feature in which Ben & producer Dennis (aka, Dr. D.) review the week’s top stories. Also, bonus interviews drop on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
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Why sweep the streets?
The city says it’s keeping the streets clean. Citizens say the streets are a ticketing gold mine.
Posted inCity Life
We’re here, we’re queer, we’re at the beach
What makes Hollywood Beach and others like it welcoming to LGBTQ+ Chicagoans?
Posted inOn Culture
‘The narrative was the key’
Reader cofounder and original editor Bob Roth had some radical ideas about editors. He didn’t want them to prescribe what went into the paper, or to solicit it. He wanted the stories to crop up like some natural urban flora and make their way on their own to the Reader office. The editors’ jobs would […]
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‘House of Screams’ revisited
The reporting is an icon of the paper’s journalism, but John Conroy wonders what it actually accomplished.
Posted inEssay
‘Hello, woman of color’
On whiteness, journalism, and leading the most diverse staff in Reader history
Posted inNews & Politics
Two priests, a rabbi, and the Sex Pig
“Nice work, but you’re not ready,” Bob McCamant declared, after flipping through the portfolio of 16-by-20-inch black-and-white prints I had spent many darkroom hours creating. We sat in his office at Reader headquarters on Illinois Street, in 1986, the year I graduated from Columbia College. McCamant was one of the group of four who’d founded […]
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50 years of a Chicago weekly
The history of the Reader reflects the larger history of newspaper publishing in the United States. This timeline traces the paper’s changing fortunes over the course of a half-century.