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Home » People Issue

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Posted inArts & Culture

The year in Reader photos

by Danielle A. Scruggs December 28, 2016August 18, 2021

The best photos that ran in the Reader in 2016.

Posted inNews & Politics

People Issue 2016: Nineteen Chicagoans in their own words

by Reader staff December 7, 2016August 18, 2021

An Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a 12-year-old theater critic, an American Ninja Warrior stuntman, and more extraordinary Chicagoans

Posted inBlogs

Poet and soul singer extraordinaire Jamila Woods signs with Closed Sessions

by Leor Galil January 20, 2016August 18, 2021

The new “Blk Girl Soldier” is the first single from Jamila Woods’s debut solo mixtape.

Posted inBlogs

Musical-comedy game show Shame That Tune will shame no more

by Kevin Warwick August 20, 2015August 18, 2021

The musical-comedy game show Shame That Tune ends its run tonight at the Hideout.

Posted inBlogs

Reader premiere: The bizarre video for Nnamdi Ogbonnaya’s ‘2% Chest’

by Leor Galil June 23, 2014August 18, 2021

We’ve got the exclusive premiere of the video for “2% Chest,” a delightfully strange antipop song off Nnamdi Ogbonnaya’s forthcoming album.

Posted inBlogs

12 O’Clock Track: Allan Kingdom sounds like he’s rapping in reverse on “Achilles”

by Leor Galil January 23, 2014August 18, 2021

The Twin Cities MC goes wild dropping rhymes on the spacey tune from last year’s Talk to Strangers EP.

Posted inBlogs

The People Issue: The B Side

by Philip Montoro December 12, 2013August 19, 2021

Someone doesn’t have to be famous to be interesting—and that’s just as true in the Chicago music scene as it is anywhere else.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Fri 2/8: Angel Olsen, Love in the Time of Online Dating, and Community’s Danny Pudi

by Drew Hunt February 8, 2013August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, February 8, 2013.

Posted inBlogs

Deep-sea discovery with Janet Voight

by Julia Thiel December 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Janet Voight, deep-sea biologist, talks about what she’s found at the bottom of the ocean

Posted inBlogs

The passion of Vern Hester

by Leor Galil December 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Photography, rock, Buddhism, and enthusiasm are a part of what makes him one extraordinary Chicagoan

Posted inBlogs

A glimpse of the Chicago music scene that thrives outside the glare of the spotlight

by Philip Montoro December 20, 2012August 19, 2021

The B Side of the People Issue: Angel Olsen, Million Dollar Mano, Dee Alexander, and more

Posted inBlogs

Endangering the lives of children: the ceaseless train of tragedy in segregated neighborhoods

by Steve Bogira December 20, 2012August 19, 2021

Traumatic losses are almost commonplace for some kids in Chicago

Posted inArts & Culture

People Issue 2012: Jackie Taylor, the dramatist

by Chicago Reader December 20, 2012August 19, 2021

Black Ensemble Theater founder: “I put my life into this and I don’t want it to go when my life goes.”

Posted inNews & Politics

People Issue 2012: Tony Bacon, the custodian

by Chicago Reader December 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago Public Schools employee: “The union guy told me, ‘Just be happy you got a job.'”

Posted inNews & Politics

People Issue 2012: Roger Sosner, the hawker

by Chicago Reader December 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Beer vendor and LP collector: “Any person with a strong back and a weak mind can do it.”

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