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Takito Kitchen in Wicker Park
Posted inCity Life

Signs of spring

by Salem Collo-Julin March 12, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘Essential, not disposable’

by Anna Romina Guevarra October 20, 2020August 18, 2021

We need a new ethic of care that values workers not only for their labor but for the lives that they are living.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Back to college in a pandemic

by Deanna Isaacs September 2, 2020August 18, 2021

Faculty and staff unions question safety, while the future of higher ed gets murky.

Posted inMusic

Bluesman Frank ‘Little Sonny’ Scott Jr. gave his all to Maxwell Street for half a century

by Steve Krakow February 25, 2020August 18, 2021

The Supreme Mayor of Maxwell Street left a scant recorded legacy, but he’s well remembered for his efforts to preserve the historic market and open-air blues hub.

Posted inMusic

Remembering drummer, pharmacist, activist, and seeker Alvin Fielder

by Steve Krakow October 22, 2019August 18, 2021

A charter member of the AACM and a longtime partner of saxophonist Kidd Jordan, drummer Alvin Fielder was an encyclopedia of jazz history with an eye on the future.

Posted inNews & Politics

More money no problems

by Maya Dukmasova March 28, 2019August 18, 2021

For the first time in decades, Chicago has a say in who its treasurer will be. But what the hell does the treasurer even do?

Posted inNews & Politics

The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence

by Maya Dukmasova December 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.

Posted inArts & Culture

‘Chicago New Media 1973-1992’ pays tribute to the city’s contribution to video games and digital art

by Caroline Picard November 29, 2018August 18, 2021

On the frontier of free information, experimentation, and self-expression.

Posted inNews & Politics

Protests and blaming the media—sound familiar? That was during the ’68 Democratic National Convention

by Mick Dumke August 21, 2018August 18, 2021

Archived letters to former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley bring up familiar concerns about unrest, policing, political divisions, and “propaganda.”

Posted inBlogs

The slow death of the student protest movement: a 1972 report

by Aimee Levitt April 6, 2018August 18, 2021

“Maybe it’s fatigue, maybe it’s apathy. But the student movement isn’t the same, and never can be again.”

Posted inBlogs

The time Ben Joravsky got Bill Ayers to admit he was an asshole

by Aimee Levitt January 31, 2018August 18, 2021

A classic profile of a very complicated subject.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner slams NFL players who protest the national anthem and flag before games, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd September 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, a Rascal Flatts restaurant is (seriously) opening in the Fulton Market District.

Posted inBlogs

Queer and proud in a cool protester outfit

by Isa Giallorenzo May 17, 2017August 18, 2021

Artist Angela Davis Fegan sports a red coverall for a staged protest during the Open Engagement conference.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Is something wrong at UIC’s College of Education?

by Deanna Isaacs May 9, 2017August 18, 2021

There is if you think its Urban Education program should be graduating black teachers.

Posted inBlogs

Kim Foxx on the Girl Talk, the Chicago Improv Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this week

by Brianna Wellen March 27, 2017August 18, 2021

Thomas Frank, Zhang Peili, and more happenings from March 27-30

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