The Vinyard Indians are attempting to become Illinois’s first state-recognized native tribe. But tribes long recognized by the federal government say the downstate group’s members are just a bunch of white people caught in an act of cultural appropriation.
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Downstate hate: A history of the bitter, nearly 200-year rivalry between Chicago and the rest of Illinois
The animosity between Illinois’s largest city and its smaller towns is almost as old as the state itself.
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The twilight of Freddy the Beard
Pool legend Freddy the Beard is banking on a new hustle: selling himself.
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The origins of the striptease and burlesque
The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the first appearance of the hoochie coochie