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The secret lives of food critics, circa 1980
It was a dangerous profession, as the Reader‘s Toni Schlesinger discovered.
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The lost Harold Washington files
Thirty years after Harold Washington’s death, a newly unearthed trove of documents reveals the early stages of his transformation into the insurgent who’d become the first (and still only) black man elected mayor of Chicago.
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Remembering Abner Mikva, who built Evanston’s Democratic Party
The former congressman took the political know-how he gleaned in Chicago to build the Democratic Party of Evanston.
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In the mayoral money race, the rich—that is, Rahm—gets richer
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Robert Fioretti trail far behind Mayor Emanuel in fundraising. Does it matter?
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Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice
Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it’s time for another movement.
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Remembering Chicago’s great school boycott of 1963
Kartemquin Films documents the city’s last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
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RIP Marshall Rosenthal
RIP Marshall Rosenthal, who launched the Reader‘s Hot Type column
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: An Island in the Swamp
For decades now, most of Chicago’s political independents have emerged from Hyde Park and Kenwood.
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Fall Books Special: Chicago’s Life Story
Popular Columbia College prof Dominic Pacyga’s been telling the city’s history in pieces for years. Now he’s put it all together.
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The Jr. Senator from Illinois
Jesse Jackson Jr. throws his hat into the ring of wannabe replacements for Senator Obama.