Unfortunately, what Juergens presents onscreen comes across more like a loose scrapbook or vlog than a film.
Tag: veterans
Chicago rapper KC Ortiz brings buckle-your-seat-belts fun to The Campground
Rapper KC Ortiz grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and fell in love with Chicago after her drag mother showed her a video of local female-impersonation pageant Miss Continental. As she told Windy City Times last year, “I hadn’t transitioned at that time and didn’t know that world existed. When I saw that video, I wanted […]
The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 66
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Learn Scuba Chicago wants to make underwater exploration accessible to everyone
Into Lake Michigan . . . and beyond!
Quilts of Valor pieces together a way to honor military vets
“Many of these veterans feel alone, and to have strangers reach out and thank them is powerful.”
A new battleground
Veterans of the armed forces’ segregated past fight to keep their legacy alive.
This week’s Chicagoan: Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam-era vet
This week’s Chicagoan: Dennis Dobrydnia, Vietnam-era vet
The man who wasn’t afraid of the mayor
Bill Lavicka unafraid to fight the mayor
10/23—Free Job and Benefits Fair for Vets
A free job and benefits fair for veterans takes place Sat 10/23 at the Saint James Auditorium.
Kimberly Peirce at University of Chicago
Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don’t Cry) previews her new feature at the University of Chicago.
Hate, Chicago style
In 1986, the Reader’s Steve Borgira took a look at the racism and violence that caused the families of two Black veterans to move out of West Lawn’s Airport Homes forty years before.