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In this week’s Reader: The misunderstood sex offender

by Tal Rosenberg December 8, 2011August 19, 2021

What’s in the December 8, 2011, issue of the Reader.

Return of the basketball rims

by Mick Dumke October 26, 2011August 19, 2021

Andrea Bauer The basketball rims are back up at Broncho Billy Playlot park. Park officials reinstalled the rims about a week and a half ago, after about three dozen people who live nearby appealed to the Chicago Park District board during its October 12 meeting. The informational packet they presented to board members included copies […]

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Serving as Rick Telander’s conservative foil

by Mick Dumke October 3, 2011August 19, 2021

I was headed downtown on the train the other day, immersed in Solomon Burke, whose singing about lost love is so freaking great that I’d undoubtedly taken on the look of one of those miserable, iPod-listening professionals Ben Joravsky is so worried about—though I’m actually just a melancholy, iPod-listening semi-professional, and pretty happy to wallow […]

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No statistical link between basketball rims and crime around Uptown park

by Mick Dumke September 22, 2011August 19, 2021

Andrea Bauer Broncho Billy playlot Earlier this month about 50 people showed up to the community meeting for police beat 2311, demanding that police and 46th Ward alderman James Cappleman do more to deal with “gangbangers” they blamed for problems in their community. The beat covers the chunk of Uptown from Montrose north to Lawrence […]

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