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Home » The worst of Chicago
Posted inNews & Politics

The worst of Chicago

An end-of-year accounting of the city’s most annoying, alarming, and appalling people, places, and things
by Chicago Reader December 21, 2017August 18, 2021

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The Second City complex

CTA riders with no etiquette

Deal making as a way of life

The Chicago Authenticity Police

Police misconduct

The cult of Capone

Bro culture

Trump Tower

Navy Pier

Chicago nicknames

Weather-related complaints

Mount Greenwood

Protected bike lanes

Lake Michigan bacteria

Split-face concrete block buildings

Public pool rules

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Towing companies

Sunday parking meters

Mistreatment of the homeless

The recycling program that doesn’t recycle

Rahm Emanuel

Bruce Rauner

Chicago being used by right-wingers as a symbol of urban mayhem

The unelected Chicago Board of Education

Blago sympathizers

Joe Berrios

Michael Ferro

Joe Ricketts

John Kass

Chicago’s pretense of having a splashy celebrity culture

Media coverage of Chicago hip-hop

‘Chelsea Dagger’

‘Go, Cubs, Go’

R. Kelly

Billy Corgan

Ersatz Irish bars

Improv

White characters in plays

Storytelling series

Tagged: Vol. 47 No. 12, Worst of Chicago

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