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Tag: Vol. 46 No. 32
Issue of May. 18 – 24, 2017
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Progressives pressure Rauner to force Trump to release his taxes
A proposed bill would force presidential candidates to do so before being allowed on the state presidential ballot.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
CDOT proposes a boatload of safety upgrades to Wicker Park’s ‘Crotch’
The high-traffic six-corner intersection of Damen/North/Milwaukee is ripe for an overhaul.
Posted inMusic
Gentleman Caller record a song cycle about Maryse Meijer’s short stories
Gentleman Caller record a song cycle about Maryse Meijer’s short stories, Gossip Wolf premieres a future power-pop classic from the Rubs, and more.
Posted inNews & Politics
The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition
How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.
Posted inBlogs
Terrorist to some, hero to others, Oscar López Rivera will be honored in Chicago this week
The Puerto Rican nationalist comes home to Humboldt Park after 35 years in federal prison.
Posted inMusic
Singer-songwriter Kaina on magical musical polymath Morimoto
Current musical obsessions of O’My’s cofounder Maceo Haymes, singer-songwriter Kaina, and Reader music critic Leor Galil
Posted inBlogs
Report: The demand for legal guns is on the rise, and other Chicago news
Also, a study has linked high blood pressure to segregated neighborhoods.
Posted inBlogs
Tronc will likely be Sun-Times’s new owner. And the Reader?
If Tronc keeps the Sun-Times going will it preserve the Reader too?
Posted inBlogs
The Reader’s Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Kerry James Marshall, and more things to do in Chicago this week
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Laughs Unlocked, and more happenings from May 15-18.
Posted inBlogs
Cullerton in open letter to Rauner: ‘It’s time for action’ on the budget, and other Chicago news
Also, Schaumburg wants to compete with the Chicago theater scene.
Posted inBlogs
Renegade Craft Fair Pop-Up in Pilsen, Home Theater Festival, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
Morgan Parker talks There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, Mother’s Day Brunch, and more happenings from May 12-14
Posted inBlogs
Mary Oliver, Hank Roberts, and Mark Feldman kick off the Chicago Jazz String Summit tonight
Tomeka Reid’s Chicago Jazz String Summit starts strong tonight with a rare chance to see three world-class players in intimate solo and duo sets.
Posted inBlogs
This Mother’s Day, groups rally to support incarcerated moms
Through toiletry drives, “bail-outs,” and reunification rides, local activists work to brighten Mother’s Day in jail and prison.
Posted inMusic
Retirement be damned, minimalist composer Phill Niblock is going strong at age 83
The hoped-for paradox of minimalism is that reduced means will result in maximum effect. No artist has accomplished this more completely than composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, whose music intentionally eschews rhythm and melody in favor of massed, sustained tones. The beats that result when microscopically variant pitches are played at sufficient volume turn unchanging […]