In the past decade, Chicago hip-hop has elevated many talented acts to the national stage, among them rapper-producer Tremaine Johnson, better known as Tree—and his wildly idiosyncratic sounds set him apart from most of those newly minted stars. The Cabrini-Green native specializes in calamitous productions whose tough-as-nails percussion frames honeyed vocal samples warped till they […]
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Posted inFilm
History repeats itself over and over again at the African Diaspora Film Festival
The aftershocks of the slave trade echo from Benin to Hungary to Cuba to Cabrini Green.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Rahm’s obsession with downtown development isn’t really about fostering neighborhood growth
The mayor’s new Neighborhood Opportunity Fund throws small entrepreneurs a few crumbs—but the program is a lot of PR hokum.
Posted inBlogs
A Prince and Bowie Tribute, The SpongeBob Musical, and more things to do this week in Chicago
Isaac Oliver, Cash Levy, and more happenings from June 27-30
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A look back at Chicago’s public housing
On the 50th anniversary of a landmark desegregation lawsuit, the Reader and Blvck Vrchives offer this visual sampler of the city’s segregated housing past.
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The legacy of Mayor Harold Washington
In many ways, Chicago’s political climate has changed little since the death of the political visionary.
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Racial integration is possible in Chicago
In a city with a sordid history of segregation, there are beacons of light and reasons to be thankful
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Just Don’t Ride / A Bus Or a Cab Down a Street Called “Division”
On Sugar Ray Dinke’s “Cabrini Green Rap”
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“And I Just Remember Not Feeling Like a Kid Anymore”
Three Four musts today: * Steve Mills on why 10 percent of Illinois’s juvenile prison population is still behind bars despite having completed their sentences. * Megan Cottrell talks with Doreen Ambrose about the murder of Derrick Savage. * Melissa Hayes’s photographs of Cabrini Green. * The Sexist on leaking sex tapes and photos as […]
