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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

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

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