The Chicago Reader debuted October 1, 1971—almost two years before DJ Kool Herc threw the very first hip-hop party in the Bronx in August 1973, nearly three years before the Ramones made their first appearance onstage at CBGB in August 1974, and more than five years before Frankie Knuckles first spun at the Warehouse in […]
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We’ve brought together twenty of Leor Galil’s best music features from the past ten years in one book
Best of Chicago Reader, Volume 1
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Jessica Hopper’s memoir Night Moves pays homage to a bygone era in Chicago—the aughts
On being young, ambitious, and falling in love with the city, block by block, on a bicycle.
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The Reader takes six prizes at the 2017 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards
The Reader won six 2017 AAN Awards, including three first place awards.