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
Posted inNews & Politics
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
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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
Posted inArts & Culture
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.
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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.”
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Ensemble is the first gossip-free oral history of Chicago theater
Mark Larson explains how he created his 700-page behemoth.
Posted inFood & Drink
#MeToo comes to the food-and-drink biz
The Restaurant Culture Association seeks to help the notoriously loose hospitality industry combat sexual harassment proactively.
Posted inCity Life
Chicago’s animals gone wild
Fence-hopping sea lions, a chilled-out coyote, and more animal exploits from history
Posted inColumns & Opinion
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.
Posted inCity Life
The tragic romance of Abby and Bear
They were two Lab mixes from opposite sides of the fence.
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24 Hour Mueller Report people
The Neo-Futurists host a marathon reading of the special counsel’s report.
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Black Ballerina explores the pre-Misty Copeland world
Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s world premiere shows the struggles of Black women in classical dance.
Posted inCity Life
A canine newcomer to Chicago searches for a playground to call home
Or Turtle’s reign of terror across the city’s dog parks.