Some concert options for tonight, if you’re looking to listen to something other than your digestion: Even though the midterm results earlier this month offered a few bright spots for pro-choice advocates, there’s no denying that the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision earlier this year fits a pattern of attacks on […]
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Trigger’s back
As you know by now, the MAGA Six on the Supreme Court eviscerated abortion rights with their recent anti-Roe ruling, thus triggering local laws that instantaneously made abortion illegal in a dozen or so states. None of which were Illinois. And for that we must at least partially thank former Governor Bruce Rauner. Words I […]
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‘Women are the most powerful political force in America right now,’ Cecile Richards says
The Planned Parenthood leader will be in town this weekend to talk with David Axelrod about her memoir Make Trouble.
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Her style? ‘A little weird, a little masculine, a little trendy, and a lot of streetwear’
“I really try to teeter the line between extremes,” says design manager Katrina Wolf in this week’s Street View.
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How Bruce Rauner is trying to cripple the Democratic Party
Abortion bill HB 40, the union-busting Janus v. AFSCME case, and the Illinois governor’s unlikely coalition
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Game of Thrones wrap party, Noir City film festival, Fringe Fest, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Yas Queen! at the Playground, Joseph Chilliams at Schubas, and more happenings August 28-31
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Of medical fetishes and the ‘degradation pool’
Dan Savage advises a doc in training who has a thing for enemas, and more.
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Original Rap Karaoke makes a comeback at Township
Original Rap Karaoke makes a comeback at Township, Berlin hosts Big Dipper’s LaCroix Boi: The Party, and more.
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The new Wonder Woman is OK with men
A blockbuster vehicle for the venerable superhero plays down her radical feminist roots.
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Activate:Chi aims to bring the music and nightlife biz into the resistance
New activist group Activate:Chi wants to make political engagement easy, and it’s getting started with a party at the Virgin Hotel.
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The Planned Parenthood of Illinois bake sale sold out online before sales were even scheduled to begin
Thirteen Chicago restaurants have sold more than $37,000 worth of cookies to benefit women’s health care.
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Amy Whitaker wants her patients to know that Planned Parenthood is here to stay
The medical director of Planned Parenthood of Illinois says the healthcare provider will stick with its mission, regardless of what the new president and Congressional Republicans do.
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Marchofdildos.com and other responses to Trump
The “Orange Julius Caesar” has a thing or two coming.
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How can grassroots musicians fight the Trump beast?
Adele Nicholas of Axons and Impossible Colors is also a self-employed civil rights lawyer—and she’s releasing a compilation to benefit the Chicago Community Bond Fund.
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Cecile Richards plans for the next century of Planned Parenthood
In a talk at the University of Chicago Law School, the president of Planned Parenthood talked about reproductive rights postelection.