More than 12 years after her blazing debut on the Chicago jazz scene, trumpeter Jaimie Branch releases Fly or Die, her first album as a bandleader.
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How many Chicago mayors have graduated from a Chicago public high school?
Our mayors’ experience with CPS has rarely been firsthand.
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That time in ’77 Jane Byrne and I were on TV together
As a young, mop-topped lad of 22, the Reader political columnist was on WTTW . . .
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Rahm swears off swearing for 2012
Mayor Emanuel is giving up cursing, impeachable sources say
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The Double Life of Jim Allans
Back when Jim Allans started making his winter trips to the Amazon basin, most people knew the place he was going as simply “the jungle.” To them it was as exotic and dangerous as the back side of the moon. Now it has become “the rain forest,” and it’s the hippest cause this side of […]