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- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Dec 30, 2020
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We should rename Chicago’s shoreline highway DuSable Drive, but we don’t have to drop LSD
Renaming the landmark for Chicago’s Black founder would be a game-changer, but we can still also refer to Lake Shore Drive by its iconic appellation.
- Columns & Opinion, Staff notes Oct 1, 2020
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The Future of the Reader
An update on our nonprofit status as we approach our 50th anniversary
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 19, 2020
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A category of one
Albert Dickens: the coolest cat in the newsroom
- Arts & Culture, History Mar 31, 2020
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Chicago History Museum keeps the virtual lights on
Departing president Gary Johnson talks about going digital in a pandemic.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Mar 11, 2020
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Kim Foxx was right
Smollettgate is bullsh*t!
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 5, 2019
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The first step
Thank you, Chicago teachers, for forcing the powers that be to take a small step toward doing the right thing.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Sep 26, 2019
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The Herguth files
A Sun-Times reporter gathers the FBI’s files on the famous and infamous.
- Reader, Announcements Feb 21, 2019
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The Ben Joravsky Show returns February 27
Ben is back on the air. The Ben Joravsky Show will launch Wednesday, February 27, as a livestream and podcast presented by the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Sun-Times.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Who's that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what's that?
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2018
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Reader announces Anne Elizabeth Moore as editor in chief, Karen Hawkins as digital managing editor
The new publisher of the Reader is Tracy Baim, founder and longtime executive editor of the Windy City Times.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Aug 22, 2018
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The maverick behind the camera
African-American photojournalist Dorrell Creightney and his work have faded into memory—until now.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2018
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The golden age of democracy finally shows up—in the raft of former insiders turned mayoral candidates
If nothing else the mayoral race is full of experienced players equipped to speak some truth to Rahm.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 29, 2018
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Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2018
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If Rauner loves African-Americans, he’s got a funny way of showing it
Evaluating the governor's claim to have done "historic things for the black community. I would argue more than any other governor."
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 18, 2018
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Another whopper from Rahm: express service to O'Hare that won’t cost the public
Does anyone really believe the public won't be contributing any money to Elon Musk's new project?
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2018
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Chicago Crusader publisher Dorothy Leavell to lead the Reader
Leavell said she wants to continue the paper's tradition of investigative reporting.
- Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2018
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Chicago once waged a 40-year war on pinball
Alderman Ed Burke (yes, that Ed Burke) was among those who fought to keep the ban, fearing kids would blow their "lunch money" on pinball.
- Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2018
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Who's telling the truth in the Rahm-Daley feud?
We need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to get to the bottom of this after Bill Daley slammed Mayor Rahm recently.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2018
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The lessons from local media’s softball treatment of the Ken Griffin CPD donation story
This time no one can blame Sinclair Media for the hauntingly identical media coverage of Ken Griffin's $10 million handout to Chicago law enforcement.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2018
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Rahm's mopless privatization deal has left the schools filthier than ever
The schools are dirty thanks to a deal that didn't save the city much money.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2018
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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.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 27, 2018
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The secret lives of food critics, circa 1980
It was a dangerous profession, as the Reader's Toni Schlesinger discovered.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2018
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When Garry McCarthy calls a story bullshit that's a compliment
Garry McCarthy gears up for a mayoral run by cussing out Sun-Times reporter Dan Mihalopoulos.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2018
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John Mahoney, Frasier star and Steppenwolf ensemble member, has died
“He was absolutely impossible not to love, absolutely impossible not to respect,” says Steppenwolf artistic director Anna D. Shapiro.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2018
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Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss is out
Sun-Times critic Hedy Weiss has been dropped after 34 years on the job.