Reader co-owner Leonard C. Goodman has reportedly dropped his opposition to the newspaper’s transition to a full nonprofit.
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The long haul
I’ve been writing for the Reader for so long that lots of you may think I’ve always been writing for the Reader. Like, you know, I hopped out of my mother’s womb with a pencil in my hand and a question or two for the doctor about TIFs. Not true—I didn’t have a pencil in […]
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Were Ben’s predictions correct?
He wrote this column Monday and said the winner would be . . .
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Happy returns
The Ben Joravsky Show returns, streaming live Tuesday through Friday on the websites of the Reader and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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It’s that thankful time of year
For the most of the year I rant and rail about the really bad ideas and behavior of our elected officials—and, trust me, I’ll get to Mayor Rahm’s $800 million or so Lincoln Yard TIF handout, in a subsequent column real soon. But with Thanksgiving just around the corner I figured I’d keep up with […]
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Read the great Reader stories nominated for journalism awards Thursday
An examination of police in schools, an investigation of contract selling and a photo of a public housing project poisoned by lead are among the nominees.
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Mike Quigley: Russians hacked the Illinois State Board of Elections’ voter database, and other Chicago news
Also, 30 percent of local Michelin-starred restaurants have closed.
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Farewell to the Reader wizard behind the curtain
A slide show of exceptional covers by departing Reader creative director Paul John Higgins
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These gold-medal dissenters stood up to Daley’s Olympic boondoggle dreams
Whereas most of the city’s political and civic elite were ready to lead us off the financial cliff.
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Author Dave Hoekstra on being a white writer trying to document the black experience
For his new book The People’s Place, the former Sun-Times staffer and Reader contributor combined soul food and civil rights.
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Dumke beats mayor’s lawyers in cop spying case
After months of requests and an order from the state, Mayor Emanuel’s police department finally coughs up a few details about its undercover police spy investigations of ordinary citizens.
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State reps Guzzardi & Reaves-Harris talk the budget at the Hideout!
State reps Will Guzzardi and Pamela Reaves-Harris will join Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky to try to make sense of the state’s budget madness at the First Tuesdays show at the Hideout tomorrow at 6:30 PM.
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Pick up the redesigned Chicago Reader on newsstands today
Check out the Reader‘s fresh, new look in print.
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Thanking Chicago’s school children for their sacrifice
With the Willis Tower and other downtown buildings fetching record sales prices, it’s a good time to remember how much TIF money we’ve sunk into these areas.