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Posted inOn Prisons

Legal slavery

by Anthony Ehlers October 26, 2022December 21, 2022

People in prison perform essential work, but the 13th Amendment prevents them from being treated with dignity.

Posted inNews & Politics

Paul Vallas rubs shoulders with the far right 

by Kelly Garcia July 29, 2022August 3, 2022

The mayoral candidate spoke at a fundraiser for a group that has promoted transphobic rhetoric.

Posted inNews & Politics

When crime goes viral

by Adam M. Rhodes June 7, 2021August 18, 2021

Activists say Illinois’s law that makes it illegal to expose others to HIV is racist and homophobic. Now they’re close to changing it.

Posted inBlogs

Banned Books Week gets entertaining

by Tony Adler September 22, 2017August 18, 2021

City Lit Theater’s Books on the Chopping Block pop-up and other local events draw attention to the year’s most challenged works.

Posted inBlogs

The ACLU wants the mayor and the City Council to amend the ‘Welcoming City’ ordinance for immigrants, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Governor Bruce Rauner gets a new chief of staff from a high-profile conservative group following the tense budget battle.

Posted inBlogs

Report: ‘The credibility of the entire property tax system is in doubt’ in Cook County, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd June 8, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the ACLU slams Emanuel’s new police reform monitor plan.

Posted inBlogs

Trump, Sessions, Chicago FOP president Dean Angelo will meet to discuss gun violence, and other news

by Kate Shepherd March 27, 2017August 18, 2021

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy lifted the campaign contribution limit by donating more than $250,000 to his own campaign.

Posted inBlogs

City ethics board warns aldermen to not accept free tickets to White Sox home opener, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd March 15, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, the ACLU criticizes former U.S. attorney Zachary Fardon’s open letter on Chicago violence.

Posted inBlogs

Does the midwest still need Illinois to be its abortion oasis?

by Anna Waters July 8, 2016August 18, 2021

Hundreds of women flock to Illinois annually to get abortions not available in their home states. The recent Supreme Court decision could change that.

Posted inBlogs

Proposed law would classify attacks on police as “hate crimes,” and other Chicago news

by Jessica Kim Cohen July 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Plus, drug maker Pfizer agrees to truth in opioid advertising.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A play about abortion that’s Remarkably Normal

by Deanna Isaacs June 20, 2016August 18, 2021

The 1 in 3 Campaign brings its Vagina Monologues-style piece to Chicago.

Posted inArts & Culture

Up in Here offers a dated, superficial glimpse at juvenile detention in Cook County

by Steve Bogira August 26, 2014August 18, 2021

A former Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center attendant chronicles the troubled Audy Home.

Lathrop Homes, one of the country's first public housing developments and the second in Chicago, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
Posted inNews & Politics

The fight to preserve a model public housing project

by Maya Dukmasova June 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Lathrop Homes has long been one of CHA’s most diverse and successful properties. But today it’s a shell of its former self.

I Want To Put You On, Raini, by Sean Fader
Posted inArts & Culture

Queer art now, for better and worse

by Yasmin Nair January 21, 2014August 18, 2021

“Strange Bedfellows,” a traveling collection of collaborative work, surveys a subversive genre: queer art.

Posted inBlogs

Did Edward Snowden tell us anything we didn’t already know?

by Michael Miner June 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Cynicism and the national defense

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