This comic has been created for the Reader to document the year-long, citywide event series Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots. Coordinated by the Newberry Library and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the initiative seeks to address difficult history through community conversations across the city. v Credit: Anya Davidson
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 44
Issue of Aug. 8 – 14, 2019
Teaching resistance
This comic has been created for the Reader to document the year-long, citywide event series Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots. Coordinated by the Newberry Library and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the initiative seeks to address difficult history through community conversations across the city. v Credit: Anya Davidson
Historical imagination
This comic has been created for the Reader to document the year-long, citywide event series Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots. Coordinated by the Newberry Library and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the initiative seeks to address difficult history through community conversations across the city. v
A moving memorial to the 1919 race riots
Artist Jefferson Pinder’s Float made volunteers of different races and the lake itself part of his commemoration.
Amanda Goldblatt’s new novel Hard Mouth explores solitude and grief
“I now wonder how someone starts or finishes a novel without something that feels that cataclysmic in their life.”
Ensemble is the first gossip-free oral history of Chicago theater
Mark Larson explains how he created his 700-page behemoth.
#MeToo comes to the food-and-drink biz
The Restaurant Culture Association seeks to help the notoriously loose hospitality industry combat sexual harassment proactively.
Chicago’s animals gone wild
Fence-hopping sea lions, a chilled-out coyote, and more animal exploits from history
A modest proposal
As long as Chicagoans don’t care about TIFs, let’s turn the city into a giant TIF district to pay our bills.
The tragic romance of Abby and Bear
They were two Lab mixes from opposite sides of the fence.
24 Hour Mueller Report people
The Neo-Futurists host a marathon reading of the special counsel’s report.
Cat lovers and weirdos welcome
The Catcade’s Instagram is not your average animal rescue account.