Vintage clothing, art, jewelry, furniture, home decor, and nostalgic items from mid-century through the 1990s are available for the seekers at today’s Vintage Garage meet-up. This is the second to last Vintage Garage before the end of the year, and 75 vendors offering all things vintage (rumor has it there might be a Reader staffer […]
Tag: Lawndale
Posted inAgenda
Blasian March, Laughing Song, Dummy, and Giallo Gelato
The Blasian March, cofounded in New York by onetime Chicago dancer and performer Rohan Zhou-Lee in the wake of the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests, has grown to encompass other cities, including New Haven and Los Angeles. Now, thanks in part to Columbia College Chicago’s Asian Student Organization, it’s come to Chicago. As Zhou-Lee […]
Posted inNews & Politics
The murder Chicago didn’t want to solve
In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.
Posted inMusic
Photos: AMFM fights food deserts with the Feast festival
Arts and culture organization AMFM brought food, art, and music to Homan Square Park to call attention to hunger on the west and south sides.
Posted inMusic
Forgotten dance-craze hit maker Jerry O has inspired a new biography
The Chicago DJ, promoter, and soul man broke big with “Boo-Ga-Loo” in 1965, but within eight years his career was over.
Posted inBlogs
In Chicago, Obama’s legacy is visible
Despite Trump’s promise to wipe out Barack Obama’s legislative victories, images of the former president in Chicago won’t be easily erased.
Posted inBlogs
Portrait of a west-side polling place
West-side voters share their primary day hopes and fears.
Posted inFilm
A Chicago street gang tries to go straight in Lord Thing
DeWitt Beall’s Lord Thing recalls the doomed reform of the Conservative Vice Lords.
Posted inNews & Politics
Heroin, LLC
The open-air drug market on the west side thrives in the same way that legal businesses do.
Posted inFood & Drink
The rediscovery of Dave’s Red Hots
Food Issue: A retiree returns to the hot dog shop of his youth.
Posted inBlogs
Endangering the lives of children: the ceaseless train of tragedy in segregated neighborhoods
Traumatic losses are almost commonplace for some kids in Chicago
Posted inBlogs
Listen to the first and final album by Chicago posthardcore group Coping
Excellent local posthardcore group Coping is dead, but its debut album is finally here
Posted inBlogs
Lord Thing and The Corner
Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries “The Corner” and “Lord Thing” Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.
Posted inBlogs
Lord Thing and The Corner
Former Bank of America Cinema programmer Michael W. Phillips screens the Vice Lords documentaries “The Corner” and “Lord Thing” Thursday 6/30 in his South Side Projections screening series.