Evanston native Kristin Lems has shared stages with John Prine and Gloria Steinem, and she’s currently working on a play with songs about Jane Addams.
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Investigation: Emanuel’s Chicago Infrastructure Trust has cost taxpayers $5 million but has contributed little, and other news
Also, local and national progressive Democrats target Congressman Dan Lipinski.
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Police chief: Poverty, ‘society issues,’ not CPD, are causing the gun violence surge, and other Chicago news
Also, how meeting Mother Teresa changed a ex-gang leader’s life.
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Speed will be the theme of this year’s fall Chicago Humanities Festival
The fastest Humanities Fest yet!
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Traveling and listening with Gloria Steinem in My Life on the Road
With her new memoir, the 81-year-old feminist, journalist, and activist shows the power of hearing others.
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Gloria Steinem talks to Roxane Gay about her new memoir, My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem never stops moving. Over the course of her decades-long career, the mother of second-wave feminism and Ms. Magazine cofounder has advocated for women’s rights around the world, whether by posing as a Playboy bunny in Hugh Hefner’s New York club or protecting prostitutes in India. She also put in time on Adlai Stevenson’s […]
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Weekend shootings and recent homicide stats give Garcia an issue to exploit
Garcia continues Chicago’s political tradition of blaming the city’s crime rate on the incumbent.
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Reader’s Agenda Wed 2/20: Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines, Vacation Dad, and From Jail to Yale
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Wednesday, February 20, 2013.
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Underemployed recap: sex and the committee
Bro code lies at the center of an episode of Underemployed that suggests it’s women hold each other back in the work place. MTV! It’s post-feminist.
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Venus’s Next Wave
The feminist magazine’s new owner hopes to raise it to new heights by rejecting its past.
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Revolution Girl-Style Now!
Notes From the Teenage Feminist Rock ‘n’ Roll Underground
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“What kind of paper is this, anyway?”
Questions we’ve heard over and over in the last year.