Content note: This story contains descriptions of deaths in prisons, including suicide. On July 16, 2010, at 11 PM, Jeremy started sweating. He walked to the health-care unit inside the Lawrence Correctional Center, a medium-security men’s prison in southeast Illinois, where he was serving a 14-year sentence. The facility sits about 90 minutes from Terre […]
Tag: Illinois
Posted inOn Politics
State of anxiety
With each passing day, I get more anxious about the Democratic strategy of promoting MAGA candidates like Darren Bailey in Republican primaries. Oh, I understand the logic—it’s an attempt to make sure they’re facing an opponent the polls show is easier to beat. In this case, internal Democratic polls apparently showed Bailey, an extremist, was […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Here, now, and everything in between
Planted in the woods like an extraterrestrial monolith, both completely alien and perfectly at home in its environment, lies Image Continuous, a mirrored, eight-foot-tall cube with a sky-reflective circle in the middle. On view at the Edith Farnsworth House in Plano and part of David Wallace Haskins’s “Landscape + Light” exhibition, Image Continuous was conceived […]
Posted inCity Life
Get outta here (or choose your own adventure)
Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator
Posted inMusic
Celebrate Go Skateboarding Day on the (fantasy) gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was created by Chicago artist Erik Sanchez.
Posted inNews & Politics
High hopes
A dispatch from a seven-hour-long line to buy weed at a dispensary, where the tote bags are free, the branding is consistent, and security wears Blue Lives Matter hats.
Posted inNews & Politics
Weedman’s day
Illinois’s cannabis legalization aims to put dealers out of business, but they’re about more than just selling weed.
Posted inBlogs
Archive dive: A report from Morton, Illinois, the self-declared pumpkin capital of the world
In 2006, Linda Lutton and Catrin Einhorn explored the town’s busy season and spoke with the workers who pack the pumpkin, most of whom come from the tiny Mexican town of La Soledad.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Joravsky’s advice for the Republican Party
And some for progressives, too.
Posted inNews & Politics
Efforts to turn Cook County Jail into a polling location persist following governor’s veto
Though House Bill 4469 to turn Cook County Jail into an official polling location remains at a standstill, representatives who worked on the bill remain positive and motivated.
Posted inArts & Culture
These Shining Lives tells the true story of the ‘Radium Girls’ of Ottawa, Illinois
The one-act is heavy-handed but accurate.
Posted inBlogs
Rauner showers praise on Mike Pence, leaving no doubt how he feels about gay marriage
“Mike Pence, along with President Trump, are doing it for every American right now,” our governor says.
Posted inBlogs
Is it easier to renew a gun permit in Illinois than a notary public’s license?
Notaries have been having a nightmare of a time getting the state bureaucracy to OK their applications.
Posted inBlogs
Could Dems survive without Michael Madigan at the top?
Those worried about what might happen to the Dems without the boss on top can look to California for inspiration.