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Stonewalling the history of the mob and gay bars in Chicago
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The mark of Cain

by Ben Joravsky July 15, 2021August 18, 2021

The mob, the Man, and hassling gay bars in pre-Stonewall Chicago

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A category of one

by Ben Joravsky May 19, 2020August 18, 2021

Albert Dickens: the coolest cat in the newsroom

Posted inBlogs

Boss vs. I May Be Wrong, But I Doubt It: Greatest Chicago Book Tournament, round one

by Danette Chavez December 15, 2014August 18, 2021

In the fourth bout of our tournament, the late, great Mike Royko squares off against himself.

Posted inBlogs

RIP Jon Anderson: Writer, publisher, swell guy

by Michael Miner January 17, 2014August 18, 2021

Jon Anderson, a well-known Chicago journalist, dies.

The Randolph Street staircase leading to the Chicago Cultural Center's Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall
Posted inArts & Culture

A vanity plate for the Chicago Cultural Center?

by Deanna Isaacs December 30, 2013August 18, 2021

Do we need another building named for a Daley? A new City Council proposal would give us one.

Posted inBlogs

Why my fourth-grade class didn’t respond appropriately when we learned JFK had been killed

by Steve Bogira November 22, 2013August 19, 2021

A sigh of relief, followed by the donning of somber faces

Bobby Cann, in a photo taken for his job at Groupon
Posted inNews & Politics

Death of a cyclist

by Keith Griffith October 30, 2013June 28, 2022

A collision between a bike commuter and motorist raises questions about whether we’re too lenient toward those who drink and drive.

Posted inBlogs

March winds—the Chicago press in 1963

by Michael Miner August 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Looking back at Chicago’s wretched coverage of the March on Washington

Posted inBlogs

Assembling a picture of Chicago, neighborhood by neighborhood

by Aimee Levitt August 9, 2013August 19, 2021

Two local bloggers have organized a reading celebrating Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Medium Cool
Posted inFilm

The lost Chicago of Medium Cool

by J.R. Jones July 10, 2013August 19, 2021

With Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler had more on his mind than just the Democratic Convention.

Attorney Sheribel Rothenberg has represented terminated journalists for decades. It's a very different predicament today.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

When push comes to shove, should laid-off journalists sue?

by Michael Miner May 22, 2013August 19, 2021

When push comes to shove, should laid-off journalists sue?

Veteran journalist Rick Kogan: "I have never had any kind of exit strategy or career path. I don't quite live paycheck to paycheck, but close enough."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist

by Michael Miner May 1, 2013August 19, 2021

Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don’t call him a sentimentalist.

Posted inBlogs

Meet the model 21st-century journalist

by Michael Miner January 15, 2013August 18, 2021

Scott Jacobs, proof the journalist of the future can actually exist

Posted inBlogs

Galled by the Reader’s sale to the Sun-Times? Not really.

by Michael Miner June 1, 2012August 19, 2021

Thoughts on returning to the employ of a company willing to pay me to bite the hand that feeds me

Posted inBlogs

Working for the Sun-Times—just like Mike Royko!

by Ben Joravsky May 25, 2012August 19, 2021

After all these years, I finally join the Sun-Times

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