Conceptually, the words “Chicago, Wisconsin” are sure to baffle almost anyone reading them today. The idea that Illinois’s metropolis (and the nation’s third-largest city) could somehow be a part of the Dairy State seems laughable. Too bound to the long and sordid annals of Illinois politics, despite at times feeling a million miles away from […]
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From World’s Fair to living rooms
To cover Chicago theater is to carry a ghost map in one’s head of all the lost spaces. Some buildings are gone (or nearly gone) altogether, like the original Goodman Theatre at the Art Institute, or the Jane Addams Hull House Center on Broadway at Belmont, which at various points housed Steppenwolf, Bailiwick Repertory, Famous […]
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South-side champion
Writer-photographer Lee Bey’s new book Southern Exposure showcases architectural masterworks on the typically neglected south and west sides.
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All eyes on Art Design Chicago
The Terra Foundation for American Art kicks off the hugely ambitious, yearlong celebration of the city’s visual movements, from AfriCOBRA to the Hairy Who? and beyond.
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The Chicago Picasso isn’t the only public artwork worth celebrating
The Wall of Respect is gone, but its impact shouldn’t be forgotten.
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More prose gems from Chicago by Day and Night
Some boostery purple prose from the guidebook to the 1893 World’s Fair
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In their words: Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern University Press
Mike Levine of Northwestern University Press on how to deliver books to readers
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Congrats to NU Press/TriQuarterly
Nickey Finney’s Head Off & Split, published by Northwestern University Press imprint TriQuarterly, wins National Book Award for poetry
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TriQuarterly Morphs to TriQuarterly Online
Northwestern University’s TriQuarterly literary journal goes digital
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Black at Northwestern
Angela Jackson’s poetic first novel draws on her experience as an African-American on a white-bread campus in the late 60s.
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Jack Higgins
Over the years I have been frequently astonished by the work of Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins. In February 2001 I wrote, “As an ultimate expression of the rabidly right-wing editorial fervor of today’s Sun-Times, and of the rabidly right-wing cartoons Higgins has taken to drawing, the cartoon becomes even more infuriating.” It was a […]
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Grant Pick’s People
Rag man, rug salesman, drag queen, neo-Nazi—if you lived in Chicago, Grant Pick wanted to hear your story.
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Leanita McClain
Remembering journalist and essayist Leanita McClain, who shed light on race and class issues in 80s Chicago, through her collection, A Foot in Each World