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 […]
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‘A city within a city’
Ten years after the last Cabrini-Green high-rise came down, former residents look back at the community that shaped them.
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Her Honor Jane Byrne remembers when the mayor moved to Cabrini
Lookingglass produces the first in J. Nicole Brooks’s planned quartet of Chicago plays.
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Can #AnybodyButMitts win in the 37th Ward?
Incumbent alderman faces two challengers and a new hashtag.
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In High-Risers, Ben Austen delivers a long-overdue requiem for Cabrini-Green
A new history of the notorious project reminds us why public housing mattered to the people who lived there—and why it matters still.
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The Chicago Housing Authority’s sleeping giant
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?