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City Life, Public Service Announcement Sep 18, 2020
Benefits, Cold Waves, and makeup

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, benefits, listings, events, Gage Park, Counterfit Chicago, makeup, Brave Space Alliance, Mixcloud, McKinley Park, visual art, Graff Games, Chicago Black Drag Council, Roscoe's, Replay, Andersonville, Steve “Miggedy” Maestro, Perfect Sound Forever, Cold Waves, darkwave, Medusa's, cannabis, Cannabis Equity Illinois

Music, Music Feature Nov 13, 2019
Video
Lithuanian art-rock genius Vyto B resurfaces with a cross-generational collaboration

Chicago label Sanzimat International documents the Lithuanian diaspora with three new tapes, including one with the creator of 70s outsider classic Tricentennial 2076.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Edward Anderson, 1900s, Mazes, Vyto B, Tricentennial 2076, Good and Evil Biorhythms, Vytautas Beleska, Lithuanian, Lithuania, Lithuanian American, First Chips Volume 1, Clay Pigeon, Clay Pigeon International, Paul Major, Feel the Music, Sound Effects, The Acid Archives, Patrick Lundborg, Egg City Radio, Automatic Vaudeville, John Devlin, Monday Club, A Place for Us, Gridlock, Sanzimat International, Era One, Nicole Baksinskas, Nik-Nik, Catahua Blanca, T Stephen, Lithuanian Diaspora, Michael Jasinski, Valdas Adamkus, Margutis, WCEV, Robertas Vitas, Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine, Steve Krakow, Secret History of Chicago Music, Time (Part One), Vladas Jakubėnas, Franz Schreker, Berlin University of the Arts, Grand Fuck, Fire Mountain, Mind and Soul, Arvy Tumosa, Denny Murray, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Lawn Presbyterian Church, Lithuanian Youth Center, Gage Park, Martian Plan, Angelica, Virtual Party, Scott Carlton, the Band That Never Made It, The Most Beautiful Tribe of Dolls, Rick Trankle, Tuts, MCA, Infinity, Larry Lujack, Tim Minnick, Dyslexic Apaches, Bruce Lamont, Minotaurs of P, Parasol, Cold & Kind, Return of the Century, Mazes Blazes, Coyote: Archives Vol. 1, Derek Erdman, Happy Alchemy, Charles d'Autremont, Juozas Žilevičius, Žilevičius-Kreivėnas Musicology Archive, Robert Manis, Moniker Records, Record Store Day, Chicago Psych Fest, Celebrate (Visions of Doom), Video

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2018
Recommended
Rest offers a simple yet radical premise: let’s all take a nap outside together

Free Street Theater's summer performance argues that sleep can be a powerful and political act of self-care.
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, Rest, Free Street Theater, Tricia Hersey, Katrina Dion, Nap Ministry, Gage Park, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 21, 2017
The Chicago education of George Saunders

The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Feature, George Saunders, interview, Lincoln in the Bardo, Oak Forest High School, New Yorker, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hemingway, Stuart Dybek, Gage Park, Oak Forest, Chicago Christmas, 1984, Tolstoy, Dorothy Day, Bo Jackson, New York Times Magazine, Tenth of December, fiction, nonfiction, Donald Trump, Esquire, Superman Comes to the Supermarket, Norman Mailer, Hans Vollman, Clinton, Aaron Copland, Doobie Brothers, Allman Brothers, air force, Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes, writing

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2016
79th Street rally takes aim at ending gun-violence surge and other Chicago news

Also, people obsessed with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off gather to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, spring weather, gang violence, Eddie Johnson, Chicago Police Department, gun violence, Grand Crossing, entertainment, Sinead O’Connor, Patti Smith, Wilmette, Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando, Rahm Emanuel, Gage Park, Diego Uribe-Cruz, Jafeth Ramos, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Wrigley Field, Ferris Fest, Art Institute of Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2016
Video
Karen Lewis unleashes Jedi powers in teachers' union battle, President Obama makes a nostalgic trip back to Springfield, and other Chicago news

Also, many questions remain in strange murder of Gage Park family, and Obama wants to help the CTA rebuild the Red Line.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, President Obama, Springfield, Illinois politics, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis, CTA, Red Line, Gage Park, Chicago Police Department, Millennium Park, jazz, Star Wars, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2016
Anita Alvarez defends her handling of the Laquan McDonald case, Chicago Police solved about a quarter of homicide cases in 2015, and other Chicago news

Also, Chicago Public Library is forgiving overdue fines, and Sun-Times owner Michael Ferro buys big stake in the Tribune.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, winter weather, Anita Alvarez, Cook County state’s attorney, Laquan McDonald, Gage Park, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, Michael Ferro, Chicago Tribune, homicides, Fraternal Order of Police.

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2014
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the name-dropper

Barack Obama College Prep becomes a school to be named later.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Humor, Politics, Clout City, News, Barack Obama College Prep, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama, near north side, selective enrollment schools, Hillary Clinton, Frida Kahlo, Sonia Sotomayor, Gage Park, neighborhood schools

News & Politics, Feature Mar 6, 2012
The color of his skin

A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, race relations, South Side, gangs, gang violence, interracial violence, criminal justice, Joe Henson, Englewood, Gage Park, Back of the Yards, Canaryville, Holy Cross Hospital, racism

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2009
Not on my street

The city that licked Martin Luther King Jr.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Education, Poverty, Paul Green, Race, Northwestern University, Dorothy Tillman, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolence, Al Sampson, Jesse Jackson, Gage Park, Seth McClellan, Richard J. Daley, Jim Crow, Block Museum of Art, Block Films, King in Chicago: The Chicago Freedom Movement, James Bevel, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, North Lawndale, Billy Hollins, Jerry Herman, Herman Jenkins, Carolyn A. Black, Roosevelt University, William Briggs, Warren Avenue Church, Michael Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, Poor People's Campaign, equal rights, housing rights, African-American issues

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2008
Video
MLK Day blogging: Martin Luther King Jr. in Gage Park

Archival footage of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1966 march through Gage Park.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Gage Park, Martin Luther King, Jr., Video

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Benefits, Cold Waves, and makeup

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Video
Lithuanian art-rock genius Vyto B resurfaces with a cross-generational collaboration

Chicago label Sanzimat International documents the Lithuanian diaspora with three new tapes, including one with the creator of 70s outsider classic Tricentennial 2076.

Recommended
Rest offers a simple yet radical premise: let’s all take a nap outside together

Free Street Theater's summer performance argues that sleep can be a powerful and political act of self-care.

The Chicago education of George Saunders

The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.

79th Street rally takes aim at ending gun-violence surge and other Chicago news

Also, people obsessed with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off gather to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Video
Karen Lewis unleashes Jedi powers in teachers' union battle, President Obama makes a nostalgic trip back to Springfield, and other Chicago news

Also, many questions remain in strange murder of Gage Park family, and Obama wants to help the CTA rebuild the Red Line.

Anita Alvarez defends her handling of the Laquan McDonald case, Chicago Police solved about a quarter of homicide cases in 2015, and other Chicago news

Also, Chicago Public Library is forgiving overdue fines, and Sun-Times owner Michael Ferro buys big stake in the Tribune.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the name-dropper

Barack Obama College Prep becomes a school to be named later.

The color of his skin

A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.

Not on my street

The city that licked Martin Luther King Jr.

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MLK Day blogging: Martin Luther King Jr. in Gage Park

Archival footage of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1966 march through Gage Park.

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Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Chicago label Sanzimat International documents the Lithuanian diaspora with three new tapes, including one with the creator of 70s outsider classic Tricentennial 2076.

Free Street Theater's summer performance argues that sleep can be a powerful and political act of self-care.

The celebrated short-story writer and recent debut novelist discusses his formative years in and around the city of his birth.

Also, people obsessed with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off gather to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Also, many questions remain in strange murder of Gage Park family, and Obama wants to help the CTA rebuild the Red Line.

Also, Chicago Public Library is forgiving overdue fines, and Sun-Times owner Michael Ferro buys big stake in the Tribune.

Barack Obama College Prep becomes a school to be named later.

A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret. Part 2 of 2.

The city that licked Martin Luther King Jr.

Archival footage of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1966 march through Gage Park.

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A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.