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On the cover: AudioTree Founder, millionaire, voyeur
Illustration by Sanya Glisic
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Diagnosed with PTSD,
@gherbo
wants to normalize therapy for people who’ve suffered like he has—and he’s giving away hundreds of sessions.
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No matter what you think of the Grammys,
@chancetherapper
's seven nominations are worth celebrating.
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Ida B. Wells Drive is now officially the first-ever downtown Chicago roadway to be named for an African-American woman.
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The video released by COPA today offers for the first time a complete look at the Little Village teen's final moments. The video confirms that Adam Toledo had his hands raised, without a weapon, when he was killed.
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@chancetherapper
's ‘Parade to the Polls’ is about demonstrating the political power of Chicago's millennials.
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Chloe Bennet says her Asian TV superhero isn't enough—Hollywood needs more diversity.
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"I'm starting to think that the mainstream media really doesn't want Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic nomination—even if he's the best chance to beat Trump," pens Senior Politics Writer
@joravben
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@BurnaBoy
’s "Twice as Tall" is the latest testament to the expansiveness of contemporary African artists' sounds.
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@chancetherapper
becomes Champ the reporter in a video offering a first glimpse of his plans for
@Chicagoist
.
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When election and racial justice protests rocked Chicago last summer, Mayor Lori Lightfoot used raised bridges and shut down public transportation as crowd control measures, which harmed the city’s workers.
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The Green Line, formerly known as the Lake Street and South Side Line, is the oldest and only fully elevated line in the CTA el system. It's also the only el line to connect Black communities on the south and west sides of Chicago.
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FRIDAY: Here's your chance to see one of pop’s most consistently thrilling acts live.
#Jpop
band
@perfumeofficial
performs at
@ChicagoTheatre
.
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Author, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba shows that collective action can be powerful only with community, and provides the next generation of changemakers with critical lessons on abolition and organizing in her new book. |
@ArielParrella
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The Reader's April 1 issue is live online. Read the full print issue as a PDF on our website every other week.
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@chancetherapper
donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools foundation; tells Gov. Rauner to "do your job."
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If we can’t find the money for teachers, then where did that money we offered Amazon come from?
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No more Mayors Daley, please, for the love of god.
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The Chicago Reader is joining dozens of newsrooms around the country in pursuing nonprofit status. This new model will help us continue our literary & award-winning journalism in 2020.
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You can’t spell “taco” without “CTA.”
@greenfieldjohn
put together the Chicago Transit and Tacos map, featuring more than 100 taquerias and other spots for taco located within walking distance of el stops.
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In 1890, nearly four out of every five Chicagoans were either immigrants or children of immigrants.
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Wacker Drive is currently blocked by thousands of protestors across the river from Trump Tower--some with fabulous signs and props.
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Chance the Rapper is raising money for Chicago's homeless.
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How many buildings does your landlord own? A database matches rental properties with owners, whether they like it or not.
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Pussy Riot member Peter (Pyotr) Verzilov was hospitalized in Moscow on September 11 after a suspected poisoning.
Yesterday at
#RiotFest
the group demanded justice.
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The guitars, synths, and beats sound a bit crisper on
@MogollarOnline
's ANATOLIAN SUN than on the original versions of the songs, but the new album rocks with the same vintage fuzzy glory.
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Until an executive order says otherwise, we're still printing newspapers. Pick up this week's edition in your neck of our sanctuary city.
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"We have a lot of homeless students, we bring food for our students, we shelter them, we bring them clothes. We’re their parents 7.5 hours of the day. They depend on us, we support them, we encourage them, we go above and beyond."
#CPSStrike
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Police Torture in Chicago: An archive of articles by John Conroy on police torture, Jon Burge, and related issues
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If Tim Cook *really* wanted to help Chicago schools—Apple would give CPS a sliver of the $250 billion in cash reserves it hid overseas to avoid paying taxes.
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Fred Hampton Jr. is heading up an effort to save and repurpose his father’s childhood home. His plan is to turn the house into a Black Panther Party museum and neighborhood resource center.
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BREAKING: Two downtown aldermen say it's time to honor anti-lynching icon Ida B. Wells—and stop honoring a fascist.
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BLOCK BEAT:
@TheTRiiBE
meets up with rapper
@gherbo
who is working to revitalize a Bronzeville elementary school shut down by Rahm in 2013.
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Hey, we've got new leadership at the Reader! Say hello to new editor-in-chief Anne Elizabeth Moore (
@Superanne
), digital managing editor Karen Hawkins (
@ChiefRebelle
), publisher Tracy Baim (
@TracyBaimWCMG
).
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"One of the truly amazing things is the number of people I've met who have Svengoolie tattoos on various parts of their anatomy! A lot of the artwork is quite good, and it is very flattering, but it still boggles my mind." |
@Svengoolie
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Four years after closing half of Chicago's mental health clinics, Rahm suddenly discovers "mental health crises."
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#blacklivesmatter
protest erupts outside UIC pavilion on Racine and Van Buren.
#TrumpRally
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Wacker is closed between Wabash & Michigan, and people are . . . chillin'
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@CupcakKe_rapper
raps about loving yourself whether or not you fit society's beauty standards on ‘Biggie Smalls.’
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Mental health on the ballot: On Nov. 8 residents of the Sixth, 20th, and 33rd Wards will vote on a referendum that would send mental health workers to crises instead of cops. | Max Blaisdell 👇
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A social media campaign is petitioning Marvel to hire
@eveewing
as writer for 'Invincible Iron Man'
#IronHeartEve
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Don’t miss Burna Boy coming to
@HuntBankPav
at Northerly Island on Saturday, July 23rd. Get tickets now!
Tickets:
#ad
#sponsored
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The Midwest
@FurFest
has grown from 388 attendees to more than 10,000, with upwards of $540,000 raised for wildlife- and animal-related charities.
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🎉 We made it to
#Reader50
🥳! Since October 1, 1971, we have brought fearless & forward news to your fingertips 🗞️There’s no way we could’ve reached this milestone without readers like you 💛
🎂 So today we're celebrating
#FreeFreaky50
the only way we know how -- mems & 🎁!
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@TheHumaneLeague
isn't lovin' McDonald's treatment of chickens and they're showing it in Chicago.
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McDonald's new Chicago HQ is a super-sized lightning rod for protests.
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Between May 29 and 31, the weekend after George Floyd was killed, the Chicago Police Department made 2,172 arrests. The Reader's analysis of these records shows that the vast majority of these arrests, over 70 percent, were of Black Chicagoans.
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"The youth in Chicago need more respect from adults. When it comes to young people’s opinions, we can’t really get our points across and it’s frustrating and exhausting." —Deanna Robinson, 17, from Greater Grand Crossing
🔎
@jstnagrlo
&
@teamtrace
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Chicago rapper
@D2X__
has poured all 23 years of his life so far into his debut album, "The Color Blue." |
@jackriedy
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The Reader offices are pet-friendly in 2019. Meet today’s good office dog, Abby!
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Q&A: Dispatches from the Dirtbag Left's
@ByYourLogic
of the political podcast
@CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
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ARCHIVE DIVE: In 2006, Homewood native Sophia Danenberg became the first black woman to climb Mount Everest—but nobody noticed.
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"We have a lot of homeless students, we bring food for our students, we shelter them, we bring them clothes. We’re their parents 7.5 hours of the day. They depend on us, we support them, we encourage them, we go above and beyond."
#CPSStrike
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An oral history of WGCI’s Bad Boy Radio, who
@chancetherapper
honored with his Birthday Line request:
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Trump needs to stop crying "Chicago," especially when he won't even show up here.
#debates
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🧵 Sarah Sherman, aka
@SarahSquirm
, who got her start in Chicago comedy, is now an
@nbcsnl
cast member 🎉 Take a look at these pieces from our
#ReaderArchives
👇
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This shit is wild. It’s Saturday night. Ask the Reader logo anything.
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PHOTOS: A look back at Chicago’s black Muslim community during the 1960s/70s.
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Once a dirty word, socialism is experiencing a baby boom in the Age of Trump:
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Spooky
#ReaderArchives
: "Local television legend Rich Koz doesn’t need an introduction to most of our readers, especially when he is dressed as his character
@Svengoolie
, wearing his classic raccoon-eyed ghoulish face paint and top hat." |
@hollo
(2019)
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Mariame Kaba (
@prisonculture
) wants you to read Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power, a useful primer for those who want an introduction to the concepts of transformative justice and community accountability.
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From the Reader staff:
The Chicago Reader is free—again—and still freaky.
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"Should the State of Illinois be able to regulate rents to address rising rents, unjust evictions, and gentrification in our communities?"
Voters in parts of Logan Square, Uptown, and Rogers Park can expect to see that question on their ballots.
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Chicago Reader is proud to announce
@hollo
as editor-in-chief. Collo-Julin has served on the editorial staff of the Reader since 2019, most recently as managing editor.
“It’s been my honor and privilege to work for this organization from my first day,”
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The revolutionary politics of
@VicMensa
: At the
#AntiBaitTruck
event, the Chicago rapper embraced the Black Panther Party.
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Indicted alderman Willie Cochran to
#NoCopAcademy
demonstrator: "You ain't seen no gangsters like this city's aldermen."
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.
@charli_xcx
’s performance at
#P4Kfest
proved that she's finally ready to claim the spotlight as one of the best pop stars in the world.
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Surprise! The next Illinois governor will be an incredibly rich white guy.
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Dear Rahm, if you really want to try to stop the exodus of poor black people from Chicago, you'd stop all the handouts to corporations
*cough*
#AmazonHQ2
*cough*
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If you don't have plans tonight you might as well get educated with this archive of articles regarding police torture in Chicago. The more you know...
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More than 50 local artists contributed to the Reader's fundraising coloring book! It's a mix of illustrations, from legendary Chicagoans, to architecture, to fun illustrations of pets, transit & more. Bring life to these pages & support independent media.
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that feeling when you need your copy of the Reader, rain or blizzard:
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🍕 We all know Chicago is a food town but in case you weren’t sure where to eat we made this map! 🗺️ And now a poster! 🎁 The perfect gift for the Chicago foodie on your holiday shopping list. Available at the Reader store now 👇
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"Indian American Muslim challenger Junaid Ahmed is running to unseat Raja Krishnamoorthi, who has ties to Hindu nationalist groups." |
@mdhembla
Ahmed shared vivid details about his first few years in America & talked about his working-class upbringing.
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