Two Reader staffers explore all things queer Chicago.
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Archive Dive
A daily dip into the stacks, leading up to our 50th anniversary in October
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After 34 years, a murder conviction quietly reversed in four minutes
James Allen still has two murder cases keeping him in prison.
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Lakefront and center
Census data shows the biggest population increases in the Loop and along the lakefront. What does this mean for the rest of our neighborhoods?
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Desperate for answers
A year after Martin Urbina was murdered, his best friend searches for the truth.
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‘Black people should have their babies where they live’
The push for more equitable, culturally appropriate, and accessible options for childbirth
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Ravinia opens its Music Box
Here’s one way to think about the Ravinia Music Box, the new, high-tech attraction that debuted this month in its own building on the festival grounds: it takes the legendary music venue back to its earliest days. In 1904, when Ravinia first opened, it was an amusement park, intended to drum up passengers for a […]
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Reasonable doubt
James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
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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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Pritzker has repealed the state’s HIV criminalization law
The 32-year-old statute was enacted during the height of homophobic panic about HIV and AIDS.
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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.
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A silence louder than words
How allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city’s spoken word community
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Looking for YOMHN with Monica Brown
In “Roots, Branches: Ancestor(s) Stones,” Monica Brown traces ancestral legacies.
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First came the sewage, then the hunger strike
After a plumbing flood at the aging Logan Correctional Center, three women organized one of the first successful hunger strikes in an Illinois women’s prison in years.