“I really don’t mind picking up poop,” Kara Kapelnikova says.
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How a Chicago company came to design the titles of some of Hollywood’s biggest movies
Sarofsky Corp. goes into top-secret “Marvel mode” while working on films such as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
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Combat rock: the life of a military musician
“All I’ve ever wanted to do is just play guitar, but if I have to defend myself, I know that I can,” navy band director Geordie Kelly says.
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‘When I was working murders, birding really calmed me down’
Retired Chicago police officer Luis Muñoz now does all his investigating at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary.
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This doula supports moms—both physically and mentally
‘A lot of the pain of childbirth comes from fear,’ Nicole Woodcox Bolden says.
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How a dentalphobic dentist helps patients cope with fear of the tooth doctor
“We get more new patients who are unnerved than people who are calm and composed,” Marianne Schaefer says.
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How Art Sims became the radio entertainer known as Chat Daddy
Meet the man behind the microphone of the WVON entertainment talk show Real Talk, Real People.
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‘A good doorman sees everything and tells nothing’
Patrick O’Malley was a floor trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange before he became a doorman.
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Parkour makes Chicago look like one big playground
“Your vision changes when you get into parkour. Seeing trees and rooftops—it never turns off,” a practitioner and teacher of the discipline says.
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Where do tarot cards get their fortune-telling power?
“I’m not psychic,” tarot-card reader Alan Salmi says, “but the cards are.”
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Chicago History Museum features the first American couturier—and he was born here!
A preview of “Making Mainbocher: The First American Couturier” opening on 10/22/16 at the Chicago History Museum.
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Good News Laundry owner Jeffrey Kelly is ready, able, and willing to hustle
“Work for yourself, if you’re going to work,” Kelly says. “Be the best at it.”
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A southwest-side library has become a neighborhood lifeline
Some West Englewood Branch Library patrons come “looking for just someplace to forget about what’s happening in their lives,” teen-services rep Adewole Abioye says.
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‘The clit is just a big eyebrow to me,’ and more memorable quotes from the Reader’s Chicagoans column
Oral historian Anne Ford celebrates the 150th Chicagoans column.
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Limited-edition Chicago-made hot sauce Wrath of Hahn inspires burning desire
“The demand got so crazy that I realized I had to charge money,” Theodore Hahn says of his homemade hot sauce.