As the WBEZ exposé into the Legionnaire’s outbreak in Quincy reveals, Rauner will do just about anything to keep the public from knowing what he’s up to.
Tag: Vol. 47 No. 26
Issue of Apr. 5 – 11, 2018
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Copper thief shuts down Antique Taco, but it’s back in business
The taco joint was closed for one of the busiest weekends of the year.
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Zanies comedy club has lasted 40 years with an old-school stand-up model
The club continues to draw audiences and motivate local comics to obtain a paid slot.
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Former Chicago gossip columnist Liz Crokin is now a star among far-right conspiracy theorists
The Chicago-area native dished tabloid-style gossip here for almost a decade. Now she’s a leader in a fringe right-wing online community spreading a bizarre political conspiracy theory.
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The slow death of the student protest movement: a 1972 report
“Maybe it’s fatigue, maybe it’s apathy. But the student movement isn’t the same, and never can be again.”
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Life after Sylvia: Cartoonist Nicole Hollander publishes a memoir
We Ate Wonder Bread is a graphic memoir of growing up on the west side in the 50s and 60s.
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Isle of Dogs is Wes Anderson’s timeliest film
The director’s latest stop-motion animation touches on the subjects of authoritarian regimes and refugee crises.
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Chi-town Blues Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Closing night of Lifeline’s Anna Kareina and more goings-on 4/6-4/8
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Halifax indie rockers Nap Eyes charm with a sleek, strummy new album
Nap Eyes play Schubas on Friday in support of their third and best record, I’m Bad Now.
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DJ Clent wants you to juke like it’s 1999
Chicago footwork producer DJ Clent celebrates his 38th on Saturday with a Throwback Juke Party that features some of the best producers in underground-house history.
Posted inFilm
The wall’s gonna fall at the Chicago Latino Film Festival
The 34th edition of the long-running festival brings 60 new features from Spain, the U.S., and Central and South America.
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Minority actors catch a break at the Asian American Showcase
Six new features, and one silent relic with Sessue Hayakawa, screen at this year’s festival.
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You can thank Karen Lewis for the national wave of teacher insurrections
The red-shirt-wearing teacher activists from Kentucky, West Virginia, and Oklahoma obviously learned a thing or two from Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis.
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On April 5, 1968, the west side was on fire
Twenty years later, the Reader looked back and wondered why no one else had done the same.