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Jane Byrne behind a podium with her staff behind her and Cabrini-Green residents seated in folding chairs in front of her. A sign reading "Welcome Mayor" is behind her
Posted inTheater Review

The resurrection of Her Honor Jane Byrne

by Kerry Reid November 16, 2021November 20, 2021

Right before the stay-at-home order hit Chicago in March of 2020, Lookingglass Theatre opened Her Honor Jane Byrne, written and directed by ensemble member J. Nicole Brooks. I called that production “a rich, riotous, and soul-searching world premiere,” and mourned its truncated run. Well, you can’t keep a good show down. After winning the prestigious […]

Posted inNews & Politics

‘A city within a city’

by Adam M. Rhodes March 30, 2021August 18, 2021

Ten years after the last Cabrini-Green high-rise came down, former residents look back at the community that shaped them.

Posted inArts & Culture

Her Honor Jane Byrne remembers when the mayor moved to Cabrini

by Catey Sullivan January 22, 2020August 18, 2021

Lookingglass produces the first in J. Nicole Brooks’s planned quartet of Chicago plays.

Posted inNews & Politics

Can #AnybodyButMitts win in the 37th Ward?

by Maya Dukmasova February 1, 2019August 18, 2021

Incumbent alderman faces two challengers and a new hashtag.

Posted inArts & Culture

In High-Risers, Ben Austen delivers a long-overdue requiem for Cabrini-Green

by Maya Dukmasova January 30, 2018August 18, 2021

A new history of the notorious project reminds us why public housing mattered to the people who lived there—and why it matters still.

Posted inNews & Politics

The Chicago Housing Authority’s sleeping giant

by Maya Dukmasova October 18, 2017August 18, 2021

The CHA provides Section 8 vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income households. Is the agency trying to keep them from realizing their collective power?

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