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Home » News & Politics » Essay

Category: Essay

Posted inNews & Politics

Drinking and surviving it

by Katie Prout December 9, 2021December 10, 2021

On sharing a genetic predisposition to alcoholism

Posted inCity Life

We’re here, we’re queer, we’re at the beach

by Adam M. Rhodes November 1, 2021November 3, 2021

What makes Hollywood Beach and others like it welcoming to LGBTQ+ Chicagoans?

Chicago Reader at 50
Posted inEssay

‘Hello, woman of color’

by Karen Hawkins October 26, 2021November 16, 2021

On whiteness, journalism, and leading the most diverse staff in Reader history

Fields inside Israel, just a few hundred meters from the Gaza fence, burnt by fires started by Molotov cocktails affixed to kites flying from Gaza in 2018
Posted inNews & Politics

Swords to plowshares

by Samar and Zak Witus June 14, 2021August 18, 2021

An interfaith demand for justice in Palestine and Israel

Posted inNews & Politics

The 15th floor

by Dan O’Halloran June 2, 2021August 18, 2021

On losing a loved one at the Thompson Center

Posted inFood & Drink

Silent senses

by Molly Schemper April 16, 2021August 18, 2021

For some the long-haul COVID-19 loss of taste and smell is more than an inconvenience—it’s a loss of livelihood.

Posted inNews & Politics

Tales from the polls

by Irene Hsiao November 5, 2020August 18, 2021

What a Reader contributor saw as a first-time election judge

Posted inNews & Politics

You’re going to be OK

by Rima Parikh October 14, 2020August 18, 2021

Dealing with health anxiety during COVID and beyond

Posted inNews & Politics

(Re)opening up

by Rachel Hawley, Salem Collo-Julin, Taryn Allen, Karen Hawkins, Brianna Wellen, Yazmin Dominguez, Janaya Greene, S. Nicole Lane, Leor Galil, Deanna Isaacs, Maya Dukmasova, Kerry Reid and Jamie Ludwig July 8, 2020August 18, 2021

Essays on the hopes and horrors of returning to “normal”

Posted inNews & Politics

Essays as group therapy

by Derrick Clifton, Terrence F. Chappell, Karen Hawkins, Princess McDowell and Evan F. Moore June 3, 2020August 18, 2021

How are Black writers coping? We’re chanting, fact-checking history, and envisioning a tiny future.

Posted inNews & Politics

Three walks in the woods

by Zach Mortice May 1, 2020August 18, 2021

The Forest Preserves of Cook County, which cover 70,000 acres, are an inexhaustible source of social-distance-compliant space.

Posted inNews & Politics

Covert

by Liesl Olson April 27, 2020August 18, 2021

On being a mother, the apocalypse of the interior life, and sheltering in place on the other side of Lake Michigan.

Posted inNews & Politics

David Reifman has left the building

by Dave Glowacz May 17, 2019August 18, 2021

As the Department of Planning and Development commissioner departs, megadevelopers lose one of their biggest cheerleaders.

Posted inNews & Politics

Governor Pritzker, the MLA, and the wealth gap

by Deanna Isaacs January 16, 2019August 18, 2021

Very different solutions to the same problem all come down to the size of the pockets involved.

Posted inNews & Politics

What Ari Emanuel’s unabashed volatility in Hollywood says about Rahm Emanuel’s public-image problem in Chicago

by Jake Malooley December 30, 2016August 18, 2021

In its portrayal of Ari’s celebrated dickishness, Powerhouse invites a comparison with the superagent’s hotheaded Chicago mayor brother.

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