J.B. Pritzker and Daniel Biss both say the 1997 law needs to go.
Tag: Bronzeville
Posted inArts & Culture
Manual Cinema turns Gwendolyn Brooks into poetry magic
With the help of Eve Ewing, Nate Marshall, and Jamila and Ayanna Woods, the performance collective creates an immersive audiovisual event out of the poet’s life story.
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The movement for rent control in Chicago is gaining momentum
A new grassroots coalition is mobilizing in the face of rising rents and no-cause evictions.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Shimer College is gone, but the school lives on
The Great Books institution makes a move to North Central College.
Posted inArts & Culture
How Amanda Williams draws attention to the valuation of black neighborhoods
The local artist is the subject of a new exhibit at the MCA.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Chicago Picasso isn’t the only public artwork worth celebrating
The Wall of Respect is gone, but its impact shouldn’t be forgotten.
Posted inMusic
Session drummer Morris Jennings played on Electric Mud, the Super Fly soundtrack, and scores of other records
As a house drummer for Chess Records in the late 60s, Morris Jennings kicked off a five-decade career that never brought him into the spotlight himself.
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What’s keeping people of color from using Divvy?
A new study recommends ways to break down the barriers to Chicago’s bike-share program.
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‘An Evening at the Pekin Theatre’ re-creates the country’s first black-owned music hall
Cultural historians, ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson, and the Illinois Humanities Council resurrect Chicago’s Pekin Theatre, which opened at 27th and South State in 1904.
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago’s south and west sides offer a wealth of art galleries and museums
Feast your eyes at these spaces outside the downtown area.
Posted inNews & Politics
The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition
How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
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Historians: The Bronzeville Culver’s is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
Posted inFilm
A local documentary maker stages his great-grandfather’s lost Colombian opera
With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.
Posted inArts & Culture
Gwendolyn Brooks gets the centennial birthday party she deserves
Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.
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CPS won’t let federal immigration agents into schools without a criminal warrant, and other Chicago news
Also, Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera is getting an honorary street sign in Humboldt Park.