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Tag: Vol. 46 No. 5
Issue of Nov. 3 – 9, 2016
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A Q&A with Hailee Steinfeld, who stands on The Edge of Seventeen
The 19-year-old actor and singer discusses her new film, out November 18, and her forthcoming album.
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The amaro craze now has its bible, Amaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs
You can make amaro from weeds and bubble gum, and more wisdom from Brad Thomas Parsons’s new book.
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For Latino activists, transportation justice means factoring in immigration and gentrification
Undocumented residents have special concerns, and infrastructure-related housing price spikes are a major issue.
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Chicago punks Flesh Panthers look back and grow up on the country-tinged ‘Let It Die’
Flesh Panthers celebrate their latest album, last month’s Willows Weep, tonight at East Room.
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An unbelievable surprise is unveiled on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local silk-screen artist Ryan Duggan.
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Emanuel asks for respect, no hateful rhetoric after Joshua Beal shooting, and other Chicago news
Also, Rahm’s taking questions from the public for a radio town hall next week.
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No group voted ‘never Trump’ as strong as black women
Although black women were Hillary Clinton’s strongest block of support, in Chicago they expressed mixed feelings at the polls.
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An election-night event for those who couldn’t vote
Aram Han Sifuentes’s Unofficial Official Voting Station made space Tuesday for immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, and others who couldn’t cast ballots.
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In Hillary’s hometown, all politics is local
Election night in the Democratic presidential candidate’s hometown finds many Republicans and scant few Democrats.
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Dispatch from Chicago’s Trumplandia
At the polls with Chicago’s anti-establishment southwest siders
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‘It feels like we’re screwed either way’: Latinos vote with mix of apathy and trepidation
Voters in Pilsen and Little Village cast ballots in an election marked by hateful rhetoric about immigrants.
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Raise your hand if you got up before dawn to vote for the Tribune’s guy
The paper neglects to remind us whom it backed for president.
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Seeing Hillary Clinton’s rise in All the King’s Men
What did it take to make the woman on the ballot?